List of Soviet Republics

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1 Constitutional order
2 Ranked by area
3 Ranked by population
4 Ranked by density

[edit] Constitutional order

The order they were mentioned in the Constitution of the USSR (chapter 8, article 71); also the order in which the motto appeared in the USSR Coat of Arms. This roughly corresponds to the population size of the republic when it was created.

[edit] Ranked by area

Pos	(in world)	Republic	Area (km²)	%
1	1	Russian SFSR	17,075,200	76.62%
2	9	Kazakh SSR	2,727,300	12.24%
3	44	Ukrainian SSR	603,700	2.71%
4	52	Turkmen SSR	488,100	2.19%
5	56	Uzbek SSR	447,400	2.01%
6	84	Byelorussian SSR	207,600	0.93%
7	85	Kyrgyz SSR	198,500	0.89%
-	-	Karelo-Finnish SSR	172,400	0.77%
8	93	Tajik SSR	143,100	0.64%
9	112	Azerbaijan SSR	86,600	0.39%
10	119	Georgian SSR	69,700	0.31%
11	121	Lithuanian SSR	65,200	0.29%
12	122	Latvian SSR	64,589	0.29%
13	130	Estonian SSR	45,226	0.20%
14	135	Moldavian SSR	33,843	0.15%
15	138	Armenian SSR	29,800	0.13%

[edit] Ranked by population

According to the 1989 Soviet census:

Pos	Republic	Population	%
1	Russian SFSR	147,386,000	51.40%
2	Ukrainian SSR	51,706,746	18.03%
3	Uzbek SSR	19,906,000	6.94%
4	Kazakh SSR	16,711,900	5.83%
5	Byelorussian SSR	10,151,806	3.54%
6	Azerbaijan SSR	7,037,900	2.45%
7	Georgian SSR	5,400,841	1.88%
8	Tajik SSR	5,112,000	1.78%
9	Moldavian SSR	4,337,600	1.51%
10	Kyrgyz SSR	4,257,800	1.48%
11	Lithuanian SSR	3,689,779	1.29%
12	Turkmen SSR	3,522,700	1.23%
13	Armenian SSR	3,287,700	1.15%
14	Latvian SSR	2,666,567	0.93%
15	Estonian SSR	1,565,662	0.55%

[edit] Ranked by density

Pos	Republic	Density
1	Moldavian SSR	128.2
2	Armenian SSR	110.3
3	Ukrainian SSR	85.6
4	Azerbaijan SSR	81.3
5	Georgian SSR	77.5
6	Lithuanian SSR	56.6
7	Byelorussian SSR	48.9
8	Uzbek SSR	44.5
9	Latvian SSR	41.3
10	Tajik SSR	35.7
11	Estonian SSR	34.6
12	Kyrgyz SSR	21.4
13	Russian SFSR	8.6
14	Turkmen SSR	7.2
15	Kazakh SSR	6.1