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Far Eastern Federal District
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Far Eastern Federal District |
| native_name | Дальневосточный федеральный округ |
| native_name_lang | ru |
| settlement_type | Federal district |
| subdivision_type | Country |
| subdivision_name | |
| established_title | Established |
| established_date | 13 May 2000 |
| seat_type | Administrative center |
| seat | Vladivostok |
| leader_title | Presidential Envoy |
| leader_name | Yury Trutnev |
| unit_pref | Metric |
| area_total_km2 | 6,952,555 |
| area_rank | 1st of 8 (40.6% of the country) |
| area_footnotes | |
| population_total | 7,975,762 |
| total_type | Total |
| population_as_of | 2021 |
| population_rank | 8th of 8 (5.6% of the country) |
| population_density_km2 | auto |
| population_urban | 73.6% |
| population_rural | 26.4% |
| timezone_link | Time in Russia |
| timezone1_location | Buryatia |
| timezone1 | Irkutsk Time |
| utc_offset1 | +08:00 |
| timezone2_location | Amur Oblast, Zabaykalsky Krai and most of the Sakha Republic (excluding districts in UTC+10:00 and UTC+11:00 time zones) |
| timezone2 | Yakutsk Time |
| utc_offset2 | +09:00 |
| timezone3_location | Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai, Primorsky Krai, and the Oymyakonsky, Ust-Yansky and Verkhoyansky districts of the Sakha Republic |
| timezone3 | Vladivostok Time |
| utc_offset3 | +10:00 |
| timezone4_location | Magadan Oblast, Sakhalin Oblast, and the Abyysky, Allaikhovsky, Momsky, Nizhnekolymsky, Srednekolymsky and Verkhnekolymsky districts of the Sakha Republic |
| timezone4 | Magadan Time |
| utc_offset4 | +11:00 |
| timezone5_location | Chukotka and Kamchatka Krai |
| timezone5 | Kamchatka Time |
| utc_offset5 | +12:00 |
| blank_name_sec1 | Federal subjects |
| blank_info_sec1 | 11 contained |
| blank1_name_sec1 | Economic regions |
| blank1_info_sec1 | 1 contained |
| demographics_type2 | GDP |
| demographics2_footnotes | |
| demographics2_title1 | Total |
| demographics2_info1 | ₽ |
| demographics2_title2 | Per capita |
| demographics2_info2 | ₽ |
| blank_name_sec2 | HDI (2022) |
| blank_info_sec2 | 0.769 |
| · 5th | |
| website | DFO.gov.ru |
| mapframe | yes |
| mapframe-wikidata | yes |
the administrative subdivision
· 5th | mapframe-wikidata = yes
The Far Eastern Federal District (Дальневосточный федеральный округ) is the largest and the least populated federal district of Russia, with a population of around 7.9 million and an area of 6952555 km2. The federal district is within North Asia as per the UN geoscheme and it is coextensive with the Russian Far East.
History
The Far Eastern Federal District was established on 13 May 2000 by President Vladimir Putin. It is currently governed by presidential envoy Yury Trutnev. In November 2018, Buryatia and Zabaykalsky Krai were added to the federal district. The seat of the Far Eastern Federal District was moved from Khabarovsk to Vladivostok in December 2018.
On 15 July 2022, the first high-speed highway was opened in the Far Eastern Federal District. It united three federal highwaysUssuri (KhabarovskVladivostok), Amur (ChitaKhabarovsk) and Vostok (KhabarovskNakhodka), and connect the regional capital with Komsomolsk-on-Amur, as well as sites of the territory of the advancing socio-economic development (SAD).
Demographics
Federal subjects
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| # | Flag | Coat of arms | Federal subject | Area in | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| km2 | Population | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (2021 census) | GDP | Capital/Administrative center | Map of Administrative Division | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | |||||||||||
| [[File:Flag of Amur Oblast.svg | 50px | border]] | [[File:Amurskaja obl coa 2008.png | 50px | border]] | Amur Oblast | 361,900 | 766,912 | ₽531 billion | Blagoveshchensk | [[File:Outline Map of Amur Oblast.svg | 50px | border]] | ||||||||||||
| [[File:Flag_of_Buryatia.svg | border | 50px]] | [[File:Coat of Arms of Buryatia.svg | 50px | border]] | Republic of Buryatia | 351,300 | 978,588 | ₽342 billion | Ulan-Ude | [[File:Outline Map of Buryatia.svg | 50px | border]] | ||||||||||||
| [[File:Flag of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast.svg | 50px | border]] | [[File:Coat of arms of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast.svg | 50px | border]] | Jewish Autonomous Oblast | 36,300 | 150,453 | ₽79 billion | Birobidzhan | [[File:Outline Map of Jewish AO.svg | 50px | border]] | ||||||||||||
| [[File:Flag_of_Zabaykalsky_Krai.svg | border | 50px]] | [[File:Coat of arms of Zabaykalsky Krai.svg | 50px | border]] | Zabaykalsky Krai | 431,900 | 1,004,125 | ₽487 billion | Chita | [[File:Outline Map of Zabaikalsky Krai.svg | 50px | border]] | ||||||||||||
| [[File:Flag of Kamchatka Krai.svg | 50px | border]] | [[File:Coat of Arms of Kamchatka Krai.svg | 50px | border]] | Kamchatka Krai | 464,300 | 291,705 | ₽338 billion | Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky | [[File:Outline Map of Kamchatka Krai.png | 50px | border]] | ||||||||||||
| [[File:Flag of Magadan Oblast.svg | 50px | border]] | [[File:Coat of Arms of Magadan oblast.svg | 50px | border]] | Magadan Oblast | 462,500 | 136,085 | ₽315 billion | Magadan | [[File:Outline Map of Magadan Oblast.svg | 50px | border]] | ||||||||||||
| [[File:Flag of Primorsky Krai.svg | 50px | border]] | [[File:Coat of arms of Primorsky Krai.svg | 50px | border]] | Primorsky Krai | 164,700 | 1,845,165 | ₽1,309 billion | Vladivostok | [[File:Russia Primorsky Krai location map.svg | 50px | border]] | ||||||||||||
| [[File:Flag of Sakha.svg | 50px | border]] | [[File:Coat of Arms of Sakha (Yakutia).svg | 50px | border]] | Sakha Republic | 3,083,500 | 995,686 | ₽1,616 billion | Yakutsk | [[File:Yakutia notext.svg | 50px | border]] | ||||||||||||
| [[File:Flag of Sakhalin Oblast.svg | 50px | border]] | [[File:Sakhalin Oblast Coat of Arms.svg | 50px | border]] | Sakhalin Oblast | 87,100 | 466,609 | ₽1,234 billion | Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk | [[File:Outline Map of Sakhalin Oblast.svg | 50px | border]] | ||||||||||||
| [[File:Flag of Khabarovsk Krai.svg | 50px | border]] | [[File:Coat of arms of Khabarovsk Krai.svg | 50px | border]] | Khabarovsk Krai | 787,600 | 1,292,944 | ₽987 billion | Khabarovsk | [[File:Russia Khabarovsk Krai location map.svg | 50px | border]] | ||||||||||||
| [[File:Flag of Chukotka.svg | 50px | border]] | [[File:Coat of Arms of Chukotka.svg | 50px | border]] | Chukotka Autonomous Okrug | 721,500 | 47,490 | ₽136 billion | Anadyr | [[File:Russia Chukotka Autonomous Okrug location map.svg | 50px | border]] |
Largest cities with a population over 75,000
There are 82 cities in the Far Eastern Federal District, and 13 cities have populations over 75,000.
Only four of these 13 cities (Komsomolsk-on-Amur (7th) in Khabarovsk Krai, Ussuriysk (9th), Nakhodka (11th), Artyom (12th) in Primorsky Krai) are not administrative centres of a federal subject. Anadyr, the centre of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, is one of the smallest centres of a federal subject (it has only 13,045 inhabitants). Only Magas, the centre of Ingushetia, is smaller than Anadyr.
Artyom is a large suburb of the Vladivostok metropolitan area.
Populations are given as of the 2021 census:
- Khabarovsk: 617,441
- Vladivostok: 603,519
- Ulan-Ude: 437,565
- Yakutsk: 355,443
- Chita: 334,427
- Blagoveshchensk: 241,437
- Komsomolsk-on-Amur: 238,505
- Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk: 181,587
- Ussuriysk: 180,393
- Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky: 164,900
- Nakhodka: 139,931
- Artyom: 109,556
- Magadan: 90,757
Religion
According to a 2012 survey 27.4% of the population of the current federal subjects of the Far Eastern Federal District (including Buryatia and Zabaykalsky Krai) adheres to the Russian Orthodox Church, 5.0% are unaffiliated generic Christians, 1.4% is an Orthodox believer without belonging to any church or adheres to other (non-Russian) Orthodox churches, 3.3% is an adherent of Buddhism, 0.7% is an adherent of Islam, and 2.2% adhere to some native faith such as Rodnovery, Tengrism, Yellow shamanism, or Black shamanism. In addition, 27.0% of the population declares to be "spiritual but not religious", 23.5% is atheist, and 9.5% follows other religions or did not give an answer to the question.
Ethnicity
The ethnic composition, according to the 2021 census (after the integration of Buryatia and Zabaykalsky Krai in 2018) was:
- Total6,979,578 people
- Russians5,674,671 (81.30%)
- Yakuts472,116 (6.76%)
- Buryats371,677 (5.33%)
- Ukrainians47,560 (0.68%)
- Evenki33,760 (0.48%)
- Koreans29,855 (0.43%)
- Tatars24,605 (0.35%)
- Uzbeks23,477 (0.34%)
- Armenians20,185 (0.29%)
- Kyrgyz19,659 (0.28%)
- Evens (Lamuts)19,561 (0.28%)
- Tajiks17,812 (0.26%)
- Chukchi15,686 (0.22%)
- Azerbaijanis13,011 (0.19%)
- Nanai11,424 (0.16%)
- Chinese8,396 (0.12%)
- Belarusians7,944 (0.11%)
- Koryaks7,292 (0.10%)
- Kazakhs4,614 (0.07%)
- Bashkirs4,391 (0.06%)
- Nivkh3,758 (0.05%)
- Germans3,564 (0.05%)
- Chuvash2,906 (0.04%)
- Moldovans2,851 (0.04%)
- Mordva2,675 (0.04%)
- Jews2,529 (0.04%)
- Ulchi2,431 (0.03%)
- Yukaghir1,747 (0.03%)
- Itelmens1,486 (0.02%)
- Mari1,230 (0.02%)
- Individuals who did not indicate nationality996,184 (12.49%)
Presidential plenipotentiary envoys
| No. | Name (envoy) | Photo | Term of office | Appointed by | Start of term | End of term | Length of service | Vladimir Putin | Dmitry Medvedev | Vladimir Putin | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Konstantin Pulikovsky | [[File:Пуликовский Константин Борисович.JPG | 70px]] | 18 May 2000 | 14 November 2005 | ( days) | |||||
| 2 | Kamil Iskhakov | [[File:Исхаков Камиль Шамильевич.jpg | 70px]] | 14 November 2005 | 2 October 2007 | ( days) | |||||
| 3 | Oleg Safonov | [[File:Олег Сафронов 6 March 2008.jpg | 70px]] | 30 November 2007 | 30 April 2009 | ( days) | |||||
| 4 | Viktor Ishayev | [[File:Viktor Ishayev portrait (cropped).jpg | 70px]] | 30 April 2009 | 30 August 2013 | ( days) | |||||
| 5 | Yury Trutnev | [[File:Yury Trutnev (2019-12-19).jpg | 70px]] | 31 August 2013 | present | ( days) |
References
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