Omsk Oblast is one of the oblasts of Russia, with the city of Omsk as its administrative centre. It covers about 139,700 square kilometres. The census of 14 October 2010 counted 1,977,665 residents, down from 2,079,220 at the census of 9 October 2002. The name is formed from the River Om together with the adjectival suffix -sk, and in Russian the region is called Омская область. That is a fall of 101,555 people, or about 4.9 percent, between the two counts. Spread over its area, the 2010 figure works out to roughly 14 residents per square kilometre.
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1. Subdivisions of Russia (Statoids)
Subdivisions table, OmskQuote, Subdivisions table, Omsk
Omsk o RU.OM OMS RS54 S 644 +6 1,977,665 2,079,220 139,700 53,900 Omsk
2. Omsk Oblast (Wikipedia)
Soviet years section
In 1925 the Omsk governorate was dissolved into the newly formed Siberian Krai and again reorganized, this time as an Oblast by order of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee on 7 December 1934.
On Continent: Asia, Lead sentence
Omsk Oblast is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in southwestern Siberia.
In Group: Oblasts (World), Lead
Omsk Oblast is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in southwestern Siberia.
View the SourceGeoNames: Omsk - GeoNames
GeoNamesHas Capital: Omsk, cities500 record 1496153, feature code PPLA (seat of first-order division 54)Quote, Has Capital: Omsk, cities500 record 1496153, feature code PPLA (seat of first-order division 54)
54.99244 73.36859 P PPLA RU 54 1172070 90 Asia/Omsk
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