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The Jewish Autonomous Oblast (JAO) [a] is a federal subject of Russia in the far east of the country, bordering Khabarovsk Krai and Amur Oblast in Russia and Heilongjiang province in China. [14] Its administrative center is the town of Birobidzhan. The JAO was designated by a Soviet official decree in 1928, and officially established in 1934.
Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia: Administrative center: Birobidzhan: As of 2013: [1] # of districts (районы) 5 # of cities/towns (города) 2 # of urban-type settlements (посёлки городского типа) 11 # of rural okrugs (сельские округа) 18 As of 2002: [2] # of rural localities
Map of Russia with Jewish Autonomous Oblast highlighted. This is a list of rural localities in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast. The Jewish Autonomous Oblast (JAO; Russian: Евре́йская автоно́мная о́бласть, Yevreyskaya avtonomnaya oblast; Yiddish: ייִדישע אװטאָנאָמע געגנט, yidishe avtonome Gegnt) [1] is a federal subject of Russia in the Russian ...
Republic of Kareliya; Leningrad Oblast; Vologda Oblast; Pskov Oblast; Novgorod Oblast; Arkhangel’sk Oblast; Murmansk Oblast; Kaliningrad Oblast; the Nenetskiy Autonomous Okrug; and the City of St. Petersburg
ISO 3166-2:RU is the entry for Russia in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for some of the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.
This is a list of districts of Russia.A district is an administrative and municipal division of a federal subject of Russia.Within the framework of administrative divisions, the administrative districts are on the same level of hierarchy as the cities of federal subject significance and may be further subdivided into towns of district significance, urban-type settlements of district ...
Birobidzhan (Russian: Биробиджан, IPA: [bʲɪrəbʲɪˈdʐan]; Yiddish: ביראָבידזשאַן, IPA: [ˌbɪrɔbɪˈdʒan]), also spelt Birobijan (/ ˌ b ɪr ə b ɪ ˈ dʒ ɑː n / BIRR-ə-bih-JAHN), is a town and the administrative centre of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia, located on the Trans-Siberian Railway, near the China–Russia border.
The largest oblast by geographic size is Tyumen Oblast at 1,435,200 km 2 (excluding autonomous okrugs Irkutsk Oblast is the largest at 767,900 km 2) and the smallest is Kaliningrad Oblast at 15,100 km 2. The most populous oblast is Moscow Oblast at 7,095,120 and the least populous is Magadan Oblast at 156,996. Krais, another type of federal ...