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Federal cities of Russia. In the Russian Federation, a city of federal importance[ 1][ 2] ( Russian: город федерального значения, romanized : gorod federalnogo znacheniya ), also known as a federal city, is a city that has a status of both an inhabited locality and a constituent federal subject. Russia has two federal ...
The federal districts (Russian: федеральные округа, IPA: [fʲɪdʲɪˈralʲnɨjɪ ɐkrʊˈɡa]) are groupings of the federal subjects of Russia. Federal districts are not mentioned in the nation's constitution, do not have competences of their own, and do not manage regional affairs. They exist solely to monitor consistency ...
Cities and towns. Cities in bold symbolize the capital city of its respective federal subject. Three capitals are too small to make the list: Naryan-Mar (pop. 25,795), Magas (pop. 15,279), and Anadyr (pop. 15,079). Pyatigorsk is the administrative centre of North Caucasian Federal District but not of any federal subject.
An official government translation of the Constitution of Russia from Russian to English uses the term "constituent entities of the Russian Federation". For example, Article 5 reads: "The Russian Federation shall consist of republics, krais, oblasts, cities of federal significance, an autonomous oblast, and autonomous okrugs, which shall have equal rights as constituent entities of the Russian ...
De jure, excluding the occupied Ukrainian territories, there are 6 types of federal subjects—21 republics, 9 krais, 46 oblasts, 2 federal cities, 1 autonomous oblast, and 4 autonomous okrugs . Autonomous okrugs are the only ones that have a peculiar status of being federal subjects in their own right, yet at the same time they are considered ...
Geography of Russia by federal city (4 C) I. Intra-city territories of federal cities (3 C) M. Moscow (16 C, 5 P) S. Saint Petersburg (20 C, 13 P)
This is a list of districts of Russia.A district is an administrative and municipal division of a federal subject of Russia.Within the framework of administrative divisions, the administrative districts are on the same level of hierarchy as the cities of federal subject significance and may be further subdivided into towns of district significance, urban-type settlements of district ...
Moscow[ a] is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at over 13 million residents within the city limits, [ 6] over 18.8 million residents in the urban area, [ 7] and over 21.5 million residents in its metropolitan area. [ 14]