Subdivisions of Russia

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Being the largest country in the world, and one of the most populated, Russia incorporates several types and levels of subdivisions.

1 Federal subjects
2 Federal districts
3 Economic regions
4 Lower level subdivisions
5 Translation
6 See also
7 External link

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Federal subjects

Main article: Federal subjects of Russia

Russia is a federation which consists of 88 subjects (Template:Lang-ru; English transliteration: subyekt(y)). These subjects are of equal federal rights in the sense that they have equal representation—two delegates each—in the Federation Council (upper house of the Russian parliament). However, they do differ in the degree of autonomy they enjoy. Most of the autonomous districts, while federal subjects in their own right, are at the same time part of other federal subjects (Chukotka is an exception).

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Federal districts

Main article: Federal districts of Russia

All of the subjects are grouped into seven federal districts (Template:Lang, sing. Template:Lang, federalnyye okruga, sing. federalny okrug), each administered by a governor appointed by the President of Russia.

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Economic regions

Main article: Economic regions of Russia

For economic and statistical purposes the federal subjects are also grouped into eleven economic regions (Template:Lang, sing. Template:Lang, ekonomicheskiye rayony, sing. ekonomichesky rayon).

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Lower level subdivisions

The federal subjects are further subdivided (level 2):

Districts (Template:Lang, rayon(y)). This is somewhat similar to the counties of the United States.
Cities/towns (Template:Lang, sing.: Template:Lang, goroda, sing: gorod) and urban settlements (Template:Lang, sing.: Template:Lang, posyolki gorodskogo tipa, sing.: posyolok gorodskogo tipa) under the jurisdiction of the federal subject.
Autonomous districts (Template:Lang, sing.: Template:Lang, avtonomnyye okruga, sing.: avtonomny okrug) under the jurisdiction of the federal subject (even though they are considered subdivisions of the lower level, they have a status of federal subjects themselves).

Level 3 subdivisions include:

Selsovets (Template:Lang, selsovet(y)) (rural councils).
Towns and urban/rural settlements under the jurisdiction of the district.
City/town districts.
Urban settlements districts.

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Translation

Russian	Russian transliterated	English	Time
Template:Lang	Guberniya	Governorate	historic
Template:Lang	Krai	Territory (Region)
Template:Lang	Oblast	Province
Template:Lang	Avtonomnaya oblast	Autonomous province
Template:Lang	Okrug	District
Template:Lang	Avtonomny okrug	Autonomous district
Template:Lang	Federalny okrug	Federal district
Template:Lang	Selsky okrug	Rural district
Template:Lang	Voyenny okrug	Military district
Template:Lang	Raion/Rayon	Region (District, Britannica:Sector)
Template:Lang	Vnutrigorodskoy rayon	City district
Template:Lang	Ekonomichesky rayon	Economic region
Template:Lang	Natsionalny rayon	National district
Template:Lang	Respublika	Republic
Template:Lang	Avtonomnaya respublika	Autonomous republic	historic
Template:Lang	Soviet	Council	historic
Template:Lang	Selsoviet	Rural council, rural district

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External link

Template:Ru icon Official website of the Federal Cadaster Center of Russia—Administrative maps of Russia

Administrative subdivisions of Russia

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Federal subjects

Republics	Adygeya \| Altai \| Bashkortostan \| Buryatia \| Chechnya \| Chuvashia \| Dagestan \| Ingushetia \| Kabardino-Balkaria \| Karelia \| Khakassia \| Komi \| Kalmykia \| Karachay-Cherkessia \| Mari El \| Mordovia \| North Ossetia-Alania \| Sakha \| Tatarstan \| Tuva \| Udmurtia
Krais	Altai \| Khabarovsk \| Krasnodar \| Krasnoyarsk¹ \| Perm \| Primorsky \| Stavropol
Oblasts	Amur \| Arkhangelsk \| Astrakhan \| Belgorod \| Bryansk \| Chelyabinsk \| Chita \| Irkutsk² \| Ivanovo \| Kaliningrad \| Kaluga \| Kamchatka³ \| Kemerovo \| Kirov \| Kostroma \| Kurgan \| Kursk \| Leningrad \| Lipetsk \| Magadan \| Moscow \| Murmansk \| Nizhny Novgorod \| Novgorod \| Novosibirsk \| Omsk \| Orenburg \| Oryol \| Penza \| Pskov \| Rostov \| Ryazan \| Sakhalin \| Samara \| Saratov \| Smolensk \| Sverdlovsk \| Tambov \| Tomsk \| Tula \| Tver \| Tyumen \| Ulyanovsk \| Vladimir \| Volgograd \| Vologda \| Voronezh \| Yaroslavl
Federal cities	Moscow \| St. Petersburg
Autonomous oblast	Jewish
Autonomous districts	Aga Buryatia \| Chukotka \| Evenkia¹ \| Khantia-Mansia \| Koryakia³ \| Nenetsia \| Taymyria¹ \| Ust-Orda Buryatia² \| Yamalia