Far Eastern Federal District

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Far Eastern Federal District (Russian: Дальневосто́чный федера́льный о́круг; tr.: Dalnevostochny federalny okrug) is one of the seven federal districts of Russia. Its population was 6,692,865 in the 2002 census, living on an area of 6,215,900 km² (2,399,972.4 mi²), the largest Federal District in Russia. The current Presidential Envoy is Kamil Iskhakov.

Far Eastern Federal District covers the territory of the Russian Far East (Russian part of the Far East).

Subdivisions of the Federal District, with republics (that enjoy a high degree of autonomy on most issues and correspond to some of Russia's ethnic minorities) marked with an asterisk:

1. Amur Oblast
2. Jewish Autonomous Oblast
3. Kamchatka Oblast
3a. Koryak Autonomous Okrug
4. Khabarovsk Krai
5. Magadan Oblast
5a. Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
6. Sakha Republic^*
7. Sakhalin Oblast
8. Primorsky Krai (Maritime Province)

Major cities include Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Nikolayevsk-on-Amur, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

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(English) Information on Far Eastern Federal District
(English) (Russian) Meeting of Frontiers: Siberia, Alaska, and the American West (includes materials on Russian Far East)

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Administrative divisions of Russia

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Federal subjects

Republics	Adygea \| 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 okrugs	Aga Buryatia \| Chukotka \| Evenkia¹ \| Khantia-Mansia \| Koryakia³ \| Nenetsia \| Taymyria¹ \| Ust-Orda Buryatia² \| Yamalia