Where is the Rostov Region?
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The Rostov region is a subject of the Russian Federation,which is located in the southern zone of the European part of the country. On the topic read our article Where is Russia. The region is included in the Southern Federal District. Its administrative center is Rostov-on-Don.
Let us consider in more detail where the Rostov Region is located.
Geographical location and features
The Rostov region has the following boundaries:
- from the northern part - with the Voronezh region;
- from the southern part - with Kalmykia, with the Stavropol Territory and the Krasnodar Territory;
- from the eastern part - with the Volgograd region;
- from the western part - with the Lugansk and Donetsk regions of Ukraine.
The Rostov region includes 463 municipalities, of which 12 are the following city districts:
- Rostov-on-Don;
- Donetsk;
- Novocherkassk;
- Azov;
- Taganrog;
- Volgodonsk;
- Novoshakhtinsk;
- Gukovo;
- Bataysk;
- Mines;
- Kamensk-Shakhtinsky;
- Zverevo.
The Rostov region also includes 43 municipal districts, which in turn consist mainly of rural settlements, as well as urban settlements.
It is important to note that one of the longestEuropean rivers - Don, flows through the territory of this region. Its length is 1870 kilometers. In the south-western part the subject is washed by the Taganrog Gulf of the Azov Sea.
Lakes in the Rostov region are few, they make up only half a percent of its territory. The same applies to forest areas: forests occupy only 2.8% of the region and perform a predominantly water protection function.
The distance from the Rostov region to the capital is about 760 kilometers.
Population of the region according to the latest data isabout 4 million 250 thousand inhabitants, of which the majority are Russians, Cossacks, Ukrainians. A considerable part are also Armenians, Byelorussians and Turks.
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