Top 20 most populous states, provinces and regions · 🇷🇺 Russia
World > country: the biggest first-level regions
Updated · population (people)
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Why these 20
Population of each country's first-level regions (states, provinces, prefectures, oblasts) from Wikidata, which takes it from census offices. Where Wikidata has figures for several years the highest is used, which is usually the latest census; regions that shrink may show an older, larger figure.
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1
M
Moscow
capital and most populous city of Russia
13,274,285
Also in: #1 most populous cities (Russia)#15 most populous cities
- 2 M
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3
K
Krasnodar Krai
administrative division (krai) in the North Caucasus region of southern Russia
5,842,238
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4
S
Saint Petersburg
federal city and former capital of Russia
5,652,922
Also in: #2 most populous cities (Russia)
- 5 S
- 6 R
- 7 B
- 8 T
- 9 T
- 10 C
- 11 D
- 12 S
- 13 N
- 14 S
- 15 K
- 16 N
- 17 K
- 18 P
- 19 V
- 20 S
How it is measured
Wikidata: the first-level divisions each country lists as its own (P150, contains the administrative territorial entity) that have a population (P1082) and no dissolution date; grouped by country, the world view is built from the countries.
References
- Wikidata query: first-level regions by population, Wikidata (CC0). Checked 2026-10-20 04:46 UTC.
