Federal District of the North-West

The federal district of the North-West is one of the seven federal districts of Russia. It constitutes the northern part of European Russia . Its capital is Saint-Pétersbourg.

Characteristics

The federal district of the North-West counts approximately 13.986.000 inhabitants (10% of the population of Russia) and extends on 1.854.700 km ² (either 10% of the territory of the Federation).

Subdivisions

The federal district of the North-West east made up of the federal prone following (the capital of each subject is located between brackets):

  1. Oblast d' Arkhangelsk (Arkhangelsk)

  2. Republic of Karelia (Petrozavodsk)
  3. Oblast de Kaliningrad (Kaliningrad)
  4. Republic of Komis (Syktyvkar)
  5. Oblast of Leningrad (Saint-Pétersbourg)
  6. Oblast de Mourmansk (Mourmansk)
  7. autonomous District of Nenets (Naryan-Mar)
  8. Oblast de Novgorod (Velikiy Novgorod)
  9. Oblast de Pskov (Pskov)
  10. Saint-Pétersbourg (Saint-Pétersbourg)
  11. Oblast de Vologda (Vologda)

Seven of these subjects are oblasts, but the district also includes/understands a federal city (Saint-Pétersbourg) and two republics (Karelia and the republic of Komis).

The autonomous district of Nenets is a subdivision of the oblast of Arkhangelsk, but has nevertheless the statute of federal subject.

The oblast of Kaliningrad is completely detached from the remainder of Russia: it is located on banks of the the Baltic, between the Poland with the South and the Lithuania in North.

See too

Internal bonds

External bond

  • North Federal Western District - Page of information on baikaland.tripod.com

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