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The following is a list of 83 of the 89 [1] federal subjects of Russia in order of population according to the 2010 and 2021 Russian Census. The totals of all federal subjects do not include nationals living abroad at the time of census.
Moscow [a] is the capital and largest city of Russia.The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at over 13 million residents within the city limits, [6] over 19.1 million residents in the urban area, [7] and over 21.5 million residents in its metropolitan area. [14]
A Russian census is a census of the population of Russia.Such a census has occurred at various irregular points in the history of Russia. Introduced in 1897 during the Russian Empire, the census took place decennially since 2010 according to the UN standards.
Moscow is the most populous city in Europe and Russia, population of which is mostly made up of ethnic Russians, but it also hosts a significant population of ethnic minorities. The last census of 2021 reported 69.7% of the population was Russian.
As of the 2021 census, the population of Russia was 147.2 million. [12] It is the most populous country in Europe, and the ninth-most populous country in the world, with a population density of 8.5 inhabitants per square kilometre (22 inhabitants/sq mi). [13]
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.
In addition to the census through the State Services portal, for the first time in Russian history, the national postal operator Russian Post was involved in the census. According to the results of the 2018 pilot census, nearly 460,000 households were enumerated in electronic form with more than 1.2 million inhabitants.
Moscow: 0.940 2 Saint Petersburg: 0.918 3 Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug: 0.914 4 Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug: 0.902 5 Nenets Autonomous Okrug: 0.899 6 Tatarstan: 0.897 7 Tyumen Oblast: 0.891 8 Sakhalin Oblast: 0.889 9 Yakutia: 0.886 10 Belgorod Oblast: 0.882 11 Astrakhan Oblast: 0.874 12 Krasnoyarsk Krai: 0.873 13 Tomsk Oblast: 0.871 14 ...