Ural (region) - Current Administrative Divisions of Urals

Current Administrative Divisions of Urals

Subdivision (major city) Economic region Federal District
Bashkortostan Republic (Ufa) Ural Volga
Chelyabinsk Oblast (Chelyabinsk) Ural Ural
Kurgan Oblast (Kurgan) Ural Ural
Orenburg Oblast (Orenburg) Ural Volga
Perm Krai (Perm) Ural Volga
Sverdlovsk Oblast (Yekaterinburg) Ural Ural
Tyumen Oblast (Tyumen) West Siberia Ural
Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug (Khanty-Mansiysk) West Siberia Ural
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (Salekhard) West Siberia Ural
Udmurt Republic (Izhevsk) Ural Volga
West Kazakhstan (Oral, Ural'sk) n/a n/a

The table (see also maps above) reveals that the Ural Federal District and Ural economical region are rather different entities, which geographically differ from the Urals, even though the Urals is not well defined geographically. In particular, those entities include parts of Volga and Siberia, and do not include areas belonging to Kazakhstan. Meanwhile, the southern part of the Ural Mountains (including Mugodzhar Mountains) does belong to Kazakhstan.

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