Demographics of Siberia
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Geographically,
Siberia has population density of only three persons per square kilometer (comparable to Mongolia). The oblasts with the highest population densities are Chelyabinsk Oblast and Kemerovo Oblast, with 41 and 30 persons per square km, respectively. Koryak Okrug has population density of less than 0.1 per square kilometer.
Population
- Urals Federal District, population ca. 12.08 million [1]
- Kurgan Oblast, population 1.02 million (2002)
- Sverdlovsk Oblast, population 4.49 million (2002)
- Tyumen Oblast, population 3.26 million (2002)
- Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, population 1.5 million
- Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, population 550,000 inhabitants (2002)
- Chelyabinsk Oblast, population 3.6 million (2002)
- Siberian Federal District, population ca. 20.28 million
- Altai Krai, administrative center — Barnaul, population 2.6 million (2002)
- Gorno-Altaisk, population 202,947 (2002)
- Ulan Ude, population 981,238 (2002)
- Zabaykalsky Krai, administrative center — Chita, population 1,155,346 (2002)
- Irkutsk Oblast, administrative center — Irkutsk, population 2.77 million (2002)
- Republic of Khakassia, capital — Abakan, population 575,400.
- Kemerovo Oblast, administrative center — Kemerovo, population 2.90 million (2002)
- Krasnoyarsk Krai, administrative center — Krasnoyarsk, population 2.97 million (2002).
- Novosibirsk Oblast, administrative center — Novosibirsk, population 2.69 million (2002)
- Omsk Oblast, administrative center — Omsk, population 2.08 million (2002)
- Tomsk, population 1.06 million (2002)
- Tuva Republic, capital — Kyzyl, population 305,510 (2002)
- Far Eastern Federal District (Russian Far East), population ca. 7.02 million
- Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, capital — Yakutsk, population 949,280 (2002) — the only Far Eastern region that is sometimes counted as part of Siberia.
Excluding territories of north-central
About 70% of Siberia's people live in cities.
The above count, however, by including the entire Urals Federal District, includes cities not usually considered part of Siberia, i.e. Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, and Nizhny Tagil.
Ethnicities and languages
The vast majority of the Siberian population (over 85%) is Slavic and other Indo-European ethnicities,[1][2] mainly the Russians (including their subethnic group Siberians), Ukrainians, and Germans. Most non-Slavic groups are Turkic. Smaller linguistic groups include Mongolic (ca. 600,000 speakers),
Mongolic, Turkic and Manchu-Tungus languages are sometimes taken together under the term
See also
- Indigenous peoples of Siberia
- Paleosiberian languages
- Eurasiatic languages
- Demographics of Russia
- First All Union Census of the Soviet Union
References
- ^ a b "ВПН-2010". Perepis-2010.ru. Archived from the original on 2012-01-18. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
- ^ "ВПН-2010". Gks.ru. Archived from the original on 2013-03-15. Retrieved 2016-04-03.