How many cities in Russia?
Russia is a huge country and, it would seem, citiesthere are so many in it that all can not be counted. However, we have the Federal State Statistics Service, which is the organizer of the all-Russian population re-population. It is thanks to this event held on the territory of our entire federation that they receive generalized demographic, economic and social information. In particular, it becomes known how many cities in Russia.
But first of all let's see how the town is given the status of a city.
How is the status of the city awarded?
One of the fundamental principles is the quantityof the inhabitants. So, the city can become a settlement with a population of not less than 12 thousand. In addition, no less than 85% of the total population should be employed outside agriculture. However, not all our cities satisfy the quantitative condition: there are those where the population is less than 12 thousand people. Their urban status is due to historical factors, as well as changes in the number of people in those settlements that already had the status of a city. There are also such cases when satisfying the given conditions the settlement does not aspire to acquire the status of the city, in order to preserve certain privileges.
There are several categories of cities. If the population is less than 100 thousand inhabitants, then the city is called "medium" or "small", more than 100 thousand people are "big", more than 250,000 are "large", more than 500,000 are "largest", more than one million are "city- millionaire "," megapolis ".
How many cities in Russia are million people in Russia?
According to the all-Russian census in 2010, there are 1100 cities in Russia. Of these, 12 cities are "millionaires".
- Moscow
- St. Petersburg
- Novosibirsk
- Ekaterinburg
- Nizhny Novgorod
- Samara
- Omsk
- Kazan
- Chelyabinsk
- Rostov-na-Donu
- Ufa
- Volgograd
In 2012, a millionth mark was overcome by two more cities - Perm and Volgograd.
Among all these cities there are two cities -multimillionaire, namely Moscow with more than 11 million residents, and St. Petersburg - more than 4, the rest of the same city with a million population crossed the border to only 1 million inhabitants.
