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Moscow Oblast

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Moscow Oblast, informally known as Podmoskovye, is a federal subject of Russia surrounding the city of Moscow, with a population of over 8.5 million living across roughly 44,300 square kilometers, making it one of the country's most densely populated regions and its second most populous federal subject. Unlike most Russian regions it has no official administrative center of its own, its public authorities instead based in Moscow, Krasnogorsk and other locations across the oblast.

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Population
8,524,665 1
Area (sq km)
44,329 1
Admission Year
1929 1
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1. Moscow Oblast (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Infobox: area_km2
    44,329
  • Lead paragraph, population
    population of 8,524,665
  • History section
    On June 3, 1929, the area was renamed Moscow Oblast.
  • Part Of: Russia, Lead paragraph
    as Podmoskovye is a federal subject of Russia
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Wikidata: Moscow Oblast
Wikidata Q1697, class allow-list match verified against P17/real-world identity (w-geo-qidcite-0926).View the Source

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