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Bashkortostan

Republic

Bashkortostan, officially the Republic of Bashkortostan and informally known as Bashkiria, is a republic of Russia located in the Ural Mountains region, straddling the traditional border between Europe and Asia. It is home to the Bashkirs, a Turkic people, alongside a Russian and Tatar population, and its capital and largest city is Ufa.

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Population
4,091,423 1
Area (sq km)
142,947 1
Admission Year
1919 1
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Russia, Countries
Ufa, Cities
Source Wikipedia: Ufa
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1. Bashkortostan (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Infobox: area_total_km2
    142,947
  • Infobox: population_total
    4091423
  • History section
    On 20 March 1919, it was transformed into the Bashkir ASSR, the first autonomous republic in the Russian SFSR.
  • Part Of: Russia, Lead paragraph
    called Bashkiria, is a republic of Russia
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Wikidata: Bashkortostan
Wikidata Q5710, class allow-list match verified against P17/real-world identity (w-geo-qidcite-0926).View the Source
Wikipedia: Ufa
Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Ufa, Opening sentence, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ufa
Quote, Associated With: Ufa, Opening sentence, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ufa
Ufa is the capital and largest city of Bashkortostan, Russia.
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