Map of Cheboksary, Russia

Cheboksary is the administrative centre of Chuvash Republic, Russia, with a population of about 492,331. It lies at 56.1322°N, 47.2519°E. Cheboksary is about 601 km (373 mi) east of Moscow, the capital. The nearest city on our map is Novocheboksarsk, 14 km to the east.

Cheboksary at a glance

Where is Cheboksary?

• The 38th largest city in Russia by recorded population.
• The largest city in Chuvash Republic on this site.
• Located in the Northern and Eastern hemispheres.
• Daylight ranges from about 6 h 55 min on the shortest day to 17 h 39 min on the longest day (around 21 December and 21 June).

Cities near Cheboksary

• Novocheboksarsk — 14 km east
• Yoshkar-Ola — 69 km northeast
• Kanash — 71 km south
• Volzhsk — 75 km southeast
• Zelenodolsk — 85 km east
• Shumerlya — 88 km southwest
• Kazan — 123 km east
• Alatyr’ — 150 km south
• Ulyanovsk — 213 km south
• Saransk — 254 km southwest

Largest cities in Chuvash Republic

• Novocheboksarsk — 128,468
• Kanash — 49,886
• Alatyr’ — 42,156
• Shumerlya — 35,220

Largest cities in Russia

• Moscow — 10,381,222
• Saint Petersburg — 5,351,935
• Novosibirsk — 1,612,833
• Yekaterinburg — 1,495,066
• Nizhniy Novgorod — 1,259,013
• Kazan — 1,243,500
• Chelyabinsk — 1,202,371
• Omsk — 1,172,070
• Samara — 1,163,399
• Rostov-na-Donu — 1,130,305

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Sources: place names, coordinates, populations and time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0, data retrieved October 2026). Population figures are the latest values recorded in GeoNames; depending on the country they refer to the city proper, a municipality or a wider urban area, so they can differ from census or metro-area figures. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.