Demographics of Siberia - Population

Population

• Urals Federal District, population ca. 14.4 million
  • 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)
  • Altai Republic, capital — Gorno-Altaisk, population 202,947 (2002)
  • Buryat Republic, capital — 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 Oblast, administrative center — 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 Kazakhstan, Siberia thus has a total population of ca. 38.7 million (2005). The North Kazakhstan oblast has another 1.1 million inhabitants (2002).

About 70% of Siberia's people live in cities. Novosibirsk is the largest city in Siberia, with a population of about 1.5 million, followed by Yekaterinburg (1.3 million, Urals), Omsk (1.1 million), Chelyabinsk (1.07 million, in the Urals), Krasnoyarsk (0.91 million), Barnaul (0.60 million), Irkutsk (0.59 million), Kemerovo (0.52 million), Tyumen (0.51 million), Tomsk (0.48 million), Nizhny Tagil (0.39 million, Urals), Kurgan (0.36 million), Ulan Ude (0.36 million), Chita (0.32 million).

The above count, however, by including the entire Urals Federal District, includes areas not usually considered part of Siberia, e.g. the cities Yekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk and Nizhny Tagil listed above.