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The North Caucasus, [b] or Ciscaucasia, [c] is a subregion in Eastern Europe governed by Russia. [d] It constitutes the northern part of the wider Caucasus region, which separates Europe and Asia. The North Caucasus is bordered by the Sea of Azov and Black Sea to the west, the Caspian Sea to the east, and the Caucasus Mountains to the south.
The city of Zelenograd (a part of the federal city of Moscow) and the municipal cities/towns of the federal city of St. Petersburg are also excluded, as they are not enumerated in the 2021 census as stand-alone localities. Note that the sixteen largest cities have a total population of 35,509,177, or roughly 24.1% of the country's total population.
A diverse assortment of mostly Muslim North Caucasian speaking ethnic and tribal groups form the remainder. The North Caucasus Federal District is Russia's only Muslim-majority district, and is the only federal district that does not have an ethnic Russian majority. Life expectancy at birth in the North Caucasian Federal District, 1990–2021 ...
Caucasus vegetation land cover, 1940 View of the Caucasus Mountains in Dagestan, Russia. The Caucasus is an area of great ecological importance. The region is included in the list of 34 world biodiversity hotspots. [66] [67] It harbors some 6400 species of higher plants, 1600 of which are endemic to the region. [68]
Sulak Canyon is one of the world's deepest canyons Kakhib, one of many abandoned auls in Dagestan Abandoned Lezgin village of Grar Rutulian village Luchek. Dagestan (/ ˌ d æ ɡ ɪ ˈ s t æ n,-ˈ s t ɑː n / DAG-i-STA(H)N; Russian: Дагестан; IPA: [dəɡʲɪˈstan]), officially the Republic of Dagestan, [a] is a republic of Russia situated in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe ...
This is a list of cities and towns in Russia. According to the data of 2010 Russian Census , there are 1,117 cities and towns in Russia. After the Census, Innopolis , a town in the Republic of Tatarstan , was established in 2012 and granted town status in 2015.
North Caucasus Economic Region (Се́веро-Кавка́зский экономи́ческий райо́н; tr.: Severo-Kavkazskiy ekonomicheskiy rayon) is one of 12 economic regions of Russia. It comprises the whole of the North Caucasian Federal District and the western federal subjects of the Southern Federal District .
The North Caucasus—Ciscaucasus is the northern part of the Caucasus region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, and is within southern European Russia The main article for this category is North Caucasus .