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  2. Oblasts of Russia - Wikipedia

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    Oblasts are typically areas that are predominantly populated by ethnic Russians and native Russian language speakers, and are mostly located in European Russia. 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 ...

  3. Oblasts of Ukraine - Wikipedia

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    In Ukraine, the term oblast denotes a primary administrative division.Under the Russian Empire and into the 1920s, Ukraine was divided between several governorates.The term oblast was introduced in 1932 by Soviet authorities when the Ukrainian SSR was divided into seven oblasts, replacing the previous subdivision system based on okruhas and encompassing 406 raions (districts). [2]

  4. Federal subjects of Russia - Wikipedia

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    An official government translation of the Constitution of Russia from Russian to English uses the term "constituent entities of the Russian Federation". For example, Article 5 reads: "The Russian Federation shall consist of republics, krais, oblasts, cities of federal significance, an autonomous oblast, and autonomous okrugs, which shall have equal rights as constituent entities of the Russian ...

  5. List of Russian federal subject name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    The Russian Federation constitutionally consists of 85 federal subjects, 46 of which are oblasts ("provinces"), 9 are krais ("territories"), 22 are republics (one of them, Crimea, is claimed by Ukraine and not recognised internationally as a part of Russia), four are autonomous okrugs ("districts"), and three are the cities of federal significance (Sevastopol has the same international status ...

  6. Oblast - Wikipedia

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    The term oblast is borrowed from Russian область (pronounced [ˈobɫəsʲtʲ]), where it is inherited from Old East Slavic, in turn borrowed from Church Slavonic область oblastĭ 'power, empire', formed from the prefix oб-(cognate with Classical Latin ob 'towards, against' and Ancient Greek ἐπί/ἔπι epi 'in power, in charge') and the stem власть vlastǐ 'power, rule ...

  7. Administrative divisions of Ukraine - Wikipedia

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    Ukraine is a unitary state with three levels of administrative divisions: 27 regions (24 oblasts, two cities with special status and one autonomous republic), 136 raions (districts) and 1469 hromadas. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The administrative reform of July 2020 merged most of the 490 legacy raions and 118 pre-2020 cities of regional significance into 136 ...

  8. Krais of Russia - Wikipedia

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    Krasnodar Krai 5. Krasnoyarsk Krai 6. Perm Krai 7. Primorsky Krai 8. Stavropol Krai 9. Zabaykalsky Krai. A krai (Russian: край, romanized: kray, IPA: [kraj], lit. 'region, edge') is a type of federal subject of the Russian Federation. The country is divided into 85 federal subjects, of which nine are krais. [2] Oblasts, another type of ...

  9. Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine - Wikipedia

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    Before 2022, Russia occupied 42,000 km 2 (16,000 sq mi) of Ukrainian territory (Crimea, and parts of Donetsk and Luhansk), and occupied an additional 119,000 km 2 (46,000 sq mi) after its full-scale invasion by March 2022, a total of 161,000 km 2 (62,000 sq mi) or almost 27% of Ukraine's territory. [9] By 11 November 2022, the Institute for the ...