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Chelyabinsk

Eastern Europe

Chelyabinsk is the administrative center and largest city of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, the seventh-largest city in the country with a population of over 1.1 million, and the second-largest in the Ural Federal District after Yekaterinburg. Founded as a Russian fortress in the eighteenth century, Chelyabinsk became a major center of heavy industry and metallurgy through the Soviet era and drew brief worldwide attention in 2013 when a large meteor exploded in the sky above the city.

Facts
Population
1,156,201 1
Area (sq km)
530 1
Founding Year
1736 1
Population Estimate Year
2013 1
Elevation (m)
220 2
Latitude
55.154722 degrees north 1
Longitude
61.375833 degrees east 1
Elevation Band
Lowland 3
Climate Zone
Continental 4
Time Zone
UTC+05:00 3
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Associated With

Chelyabinsk Oblast, States or Territories
Source Wikipedia: Chelyabinsk
Russia, Countries
Source Wikipedia: Chelyabinsk

Capital Of

Chelyabinsk Oblast, States or Territories
Source GeoNames: Chelyabinsk - GeoNames
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Chelyabinsk
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Infobox pop_latest field, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk
    pop_latest = 1,156,201
  • Infobox pop_latest_date field, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk
    pop_latest_date = 2013
  • Infobox: area_km2
    530
  • Lead section
    In 1736, a fortress by the name of Chelyaba was founded on the site of a Bashkir village.
  • Infobox coordinates field, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk
    55°09′17″N 61°22′33″E
  • Associated With: Russia, Opening sentence, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk
    Chelyabinsk is the administrative center and largest city of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia.
  • Associated With: Chelyabinsk Oblast, Infobox federal_subject field, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk
    federal_subject = Chelyabinsk Oblast
  • In Group: Cities of Eastern Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
  • On Continent: Asia
    Chelyabinsk is the administrative center and largest city of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia.
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2. Chelyabinsk (Wikidata)
P2044 (elevation above sea level)
Quote, P2044 (elevation above sea level)
elevation 220 m
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3. GeoNames: Chelyabinsk - GeoNames
GeoNames
  • cities500 record 1508291
    55.1611 61.42877 P PPLA RU 13 1535932 1202371 232 Asia/Yekaterinburg
  • Place record, elevation
    Elevation ca. 232 m
  • Capital Of: Chelyabinsk Oblast, cities500 record 1508291, feature code PPLA (seat of first-order division 13)
    55.1611 61.42877 P PPLA RU 13 1535932 1202371 232 Asia/Yekaterinburg
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4. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 55.25, 61.25
Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 55.25, 61.25
55.25 61.25 Dfb
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