Khabarovsk Krai Хабаровский край (Russian) |
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Political status | |||||
Country | Russia | ||||
Federal district | Far Eastern | ||||
Economic region | Far Eastern | ||||
Established | October 20, 1938 | ||||
Administrative center | Khabarovsk | ||||
Government (as of May 2015) | |||||
• Governor | Vyacheslav Shport | ||||
• Legislature | Legislative Duma | ||||
Statistics | |||||
Area (as of the 2002 Census) | |||||
• Total | 788,600 km2 (304,500 sq mi) | ||||
Area rank | 4th | ||||
Population (2010 Census) | |||||
• Total | 1,343,869 | ||||
• Rank | 34th | ||||
• Density | 1.7/km2 (4.4/sq mi) | ||||
• Urban | 81.8% | ||||
• Rural | 18.2% | ||||
Population (January 2015 est.) | |||||
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1,338,305 |
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Time zone(s) | VLAT (UTC+10:00) | ||||
ISO 3166-2 | RU-KHA | ||||
License plates | 27 | ||||
Official languages | Russian | ||||
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Khabarovsk Krai (Russian: Хаба́ровский край, tr. Khabarovsky kray, IPA: [xɐˈbarəfskʲɪj kraj]) is a federal subject (a krai) of Russia. It is geographically located in the Far East region of the country and is a part of the Far Eastern Federal District. The administrative center of the krai is the city of Khabarovsk, which is home to roughly half of the krai's population and the second largest city in the Russian Far East (after Vladivostok). Khabarovsk Krai is the fourth-largest federal subject by area, with a population of 1,343,869 as of the (2010 Census).
The southern region lies mostly in the basin of the lower Amur River, with the mouth of the river located at Nikolaevsk-on-Amur draining into the Strait of Tartary, which separates Khabarovsk Krai from the island of Sakhalin. The north occupies a vast mountainous area along the coastline of the Sea of Okhotsk, a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean. Khabarovsk Krai is bordered by Magadan Oblast to the north, Amur Oblast, Jewish Autonomous Oblast and the Sakha Republic to the west, Primorsky Krai to the south, and Sakhalin Oblast to the east.