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Amur region

Amur Oblast
Амурская область (Russian)
—  Oblast  —

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Coordinates: 53°33′N 127°50′E / 53.550°N 127.833°E / 53.550; 127.833Coordinates: 53°33′N 127°50′E / 53.550°N 127.833°E / 53.550; 127.833
Political status
Country Russia
Federal district Far Eastern
Economic region Far Eastern
Established October 20, 1932
Administrative center Blagoveshchensk
Government (as of December 2014)
 • Governor Alexander Kozlov
 • Legislature Legislative Assembly
Statistics
Area (as of the 2002 Census)
 • Total 363,700 km2 (140,400 sq mi)
Area rank 14th
Population (2010 Census)
 • Total 830,103
 • Rank 61st
 • Density 2.28/km2 (5.9/sq mi)
 • Urban 66.8%
 • Rural 33.2%
Population (January 2014 est.)
 • Total 811,274
Time zone(s) YAKT (UTC+09:00)
ISO 3166-2 RU-AMU
License plates 28
Official languages Russian
Official website

Amur Oblast (Russian: Аму́рская о́бласть, tr. Amurskaya oblast; IPA: [ɐˈmurskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ]) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located on the banks of the Amur and Zeya Rivers in the Russian Far East. The administrative center of the oblast, the city of Blagoveshchensk, is one of the oldest settlements in the Russian Far East, founded in 1856. It is a traditional center of trade and gold mining. The territory is accessed by two railways: the Trans-Siberian Railway and the Baikal–Amur Mainline. As of the 2010 Census, the oblast's population was 830,103.

Amur Krai (Аму́рский край) or Priamurye (Приаму́рье) were unofficial names for the Russian territories by the Amur River used in the late Russian Empire that approximately correspond to modern Amur Oblast.

Amur Oblast is located in the southeast of Russia, between Stanovoy Range in the north and the Amur River in the south, and borders with the Sakha Republic in the north, Khabarovsk Krai and the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in the east, the Heilongjiang Province of China in the south, and with Zabaykalsky Krai in the west. The Stanovoy Range forms the dividing line between the Sakha Republic and Amur Oblast and spreads across the oblast's entire northern border. The Amur–Zeya and Zeya–Bureya Plains cover about 40% of the oblast's territory, but the rest is hilly. Several mountain ranges are to the south of Stanovoy Range and parallel to it, and another mountain chain stretches along the oblast's eastern border with Khabarovsk Krai.


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