Demographics
According to the latest census that was taken 1897, the republic was accounted for over 20 million population in seven former Russian guberniyas, plus three uyezds of the Taurida Governorate that were located on the mainland.
- National composition
- Ukrainians - 14,931.5 (73%)
- Russians - 2,146.1 (11%)
- Jewish - 1,871.8 (9%)
- Germans - 451.3 (2%)
- Poles - 375.9 (2%)
- Belarusians - 208.5 (1%)
- Romanians - 185.7 (1%)
- Other - 1%
Romanians include Moldavians that during the Soviet times were falsely considered as distinct from Romanians.
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