Urals Federal District

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Urals Federal District within the Russian Federation

Urals Federal District (Russian: Ура́льский федера́льный о́круг; tr.: Uralsky federalny okrug) is one of the seven federal districts of Russia. It is the westernmost of the three Asian districts. Its population was 12,373,926 in the 2002 Census, covering an area of 1,788,900 km² (690,698.2 mi²). Pyotr Latyshev is the current Presidential Envoy to the Urals Federal District.

Federal subjects

Largest cities

Population figures are as of 2002 Census.

  1. Yekaterinburg (1,293,537)
  2. Chelyabinsk (1,077,174)
  3. Tyumen (510,719)
  4. Magnitogorsk (418,545)
  5. Nizhny Tagil (390,498)
  6. Kurgan (345,515)
  7. Surgut (285,027)

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