Kamtchatka, kam chat'ka, a large peninsula in the northeast of Asia, between the Bering Sea on the e. and the Sea of Okhotsk on the w. It is about 700 miles long, from 70 to 250 miles wide and has an area of 104,000 square miles. The chief wealth of the country lies in its fur-producing animals, which include the sable, the Arctic fox, the beaver and the bear. The Kamtchadales, once the predominant race of the peninsula, are a branch of the Mongul family, a low type, physically and morally; but they are rapidly vanishing before the Russian settlers. The Koryaks are a wandering tribe, living in the northern districts. Population, estimated at 7500.