Central Federal District

This article is about political group of regions by a Presidential Decree. For geographical region, see Central Russia.

Central Federal District Центральный федеральный округ
Federal District of Russia

Country	Russia
Established	May 18, 2000
administrative center	Moscow
Government
• Presidential Envoy	Alexander Beglov
Area
• Total	652,800 km² (252,000 sq mi)
Area rank	6th
Population (2010 Census^[1])
• Total	38,427,539
• Rank	1st
• Density	59/km² (150/sq mi)
• Urban	81.3%
• Rural	18.7%
Federal subjects	18 contained
Economic regions	2 contained
Website	cfo.gov.ru

The Central Federal District (Russian: Центра́льный федера́льный о́круг, tr. Tsentralny federalny okrug; IPA: [tsɨnˈtralʲnɨj fʲɪdʲɪˈralʲnɨj ˈokrʊk]) is one of the nine federal districts of Russia. The word "Central" has a political and historical meaning, being the core of the Russian state and its predecessor, the Grand Duchy of Muscovy. Geographically, the district is situated in the extreme west of present-day Russia; although it can be considered as the central region of European Russia. The district spans an area of 652,800 square kilometers (252,000 sq mi), with a population of 38,427,537 (81.3% urban) according to the 2010 Census.^[1] The Presidential Envoy to the Central Federal District is Alexander Beglov.

Demographics

Federal subjects

The district comprises the Central and Central Black Earth economic regions and eighteen federal subjects:


#	Flag	Federal subject	Administrative center
1		Belgorod Oblast	Belgorod
2		Bryansk Oblast	Bryansk
3		Vladimir Oblast	Vladimir
4		Voronezh Oblast	Voronezh
5		Ivanovo Oblast	Ivanovo
6		Kaluga Oblast	Kaluga
7		Kostroma Oblast	Kostroma
8		Kursk Oblast	Kursk
9		Lipetsk Oblast	Lipetsk
10		Moscow
11		Moscow Oblast	None, Most public authorities located in Moscow
12		Oryol Oblast	Oryol
13		Ryazan Oblast	Ryazan
14		Smolensk Oblast	Smolensk
15		Tambov Oblast	Tambov
16		Tver Oblast	Tver
17		Tula Oblast	Tula
18		Yaroslavl Oblast	Yaroslavl

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2011). "Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1" [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года (2010 All-Russia Population Census) (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved June 29, 2012.

External links

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Official site: Federal Cadaster Center of Russia (Russian)
Baikaland at Tripod.com at the Wayback Machine (archived February 20, 2007)

Subdivisions of Russia

Federal subjects

Republics	Adygea Altai Bashkortostan Buryatia Chechnya Chuvashia Crimea¹ Dagestan Ingushetia Kabardino-Balkaria Kalmykia Karachay-Cherkessia Karelia Khakassia Komi Mari El Mordovia North Ossetia–Alania Sakha Tatarstan Tuva Udmurtia

Krais	Altai Kamchatka Khabarovsk Krasnodar Krasnoyarsk Perm Primorsky Stavropol Zabaykalsky

Oblasts	Amur Arkhangelsk Astrakhan Belgorod Bryansk Chelyabinsk Irkutsk Ivanovo Kaliningrad Kaluga 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 Sevastopol¹

Autonomous oblast	Jewish

Autonomous okrugs	Chukotka AO Khanty-Mansi AO² Nenets AO³ Yamalo-Nenets AO²

¹Claimed by Ukraine and considered by most of the international community to be part of Ukraine ²Administratively subordinated to Tyumen Oblast ³Administratively subordinated to Arkhangelsk Oblast

Internal additional non-constitutional divisions by different institutions

Economic regions (by Ministry of Economic Development) Military districts (by Ministry of Defence) Federal districts (by President) Judicial districts (by law "On arbitration courts")

Coordinates: 54°31′59″N 37°37′01″E / 54.533°N 37.617°E / 54.533; 37.617