Orsk is the second largest city in Orenburg Oblast, Russia, situated on the steppe about 100 kilometers southeast of the southern tip of the Ural Mountains and straddling the Ural River near the border with Kazakhstan. Its population was 239,800 at the 2010 census, down from 270,711 at the 1989 Soviet census.
Facts
Area (sq km) Founding Year Population Estimate Year Elevation (m) Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Orsk (Wikidata)
P571 (inception)
+1735-01-01T00:00:00Z
P1082 (population)
population 185,362 (2025)
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 51.229, longitude 58.4681
P2044 (elevation above sea level)
elevation 200 m
P2046 (area)
area 621.33 sq km
P1082 (population), P585 (point in time)
population 185362 (2025)
View the Source2. GeoNames: Orsk - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 514734
51.23206 58.48802 P PPLA2 RU 55 246836 207 Asia/Yekaterinburg
Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 207 m
View the Source 3. 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 51.25, 58.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 51.25, 58.25
51.25 58.25 Dfb
Wikidata: Orsk
Wikidata Q47166, class allow-list match verified against P17/real-world identity (w-geo-qidcite-0926).View the Source Orsk (Wikipedia)
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