AREA AND POPI'I ATION
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Governments and Province*
Area :
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n.-.'.eS
Popula- tion on
January 1. 1915
Government* and Province*
• Area : Poj.ula- -h tion on square January miles 1915 — ■-
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4. Siberia- O)
Yakutsk (prov.i Yeniseisk (govt.) i 981,607;
Total, Siberia
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332.600 02 1,143,900 11
4,831,882 10,377,900 2-0
5. Steppe* (prov- inces) : — Akmolinsk. Setnipalatinsk . Turgai Uralsk
2ij.074 178, SIC
137.679
1,546,500 874.900
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5
4 1 64
6. Turkettan (pro- vinces) . — Ferghana . Samarcand Syr-Daria Semiryechensk
U.483 M.CS7
194,147 144,550'
Total, Turkestan I 420,807
Trans - Caspian
Province
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16
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11
Total, Central
Asian provinces. 1.366,832 11,254,1'
Total Steppes . 710,905
4,017,020 5 6 Total, Rufiia in Atia . 6,294,119 29.141
• Without inner waters.
•nations on the basis of the censns of 1897 and the yearly increase of the population.
A census was taken thronghout the territories of the Russian Soviet Republic on August 20, 1920, and the preliminary returns show that the total population, in round numbers, was 136,000,000, of whom 64,000,000 (47 per cent.) were males, and 72,000,000 (53 per cent.) females. The population of the same area at the 1897 census was 94,000,000, of whom 49 "7 per cent, were males, and 50 '3 per cent, females.
For the ethnical composition of the population as shown by the last census, see The Statesman's Y ear-Book, for 1919, p. 1189.
II. Pbihcipal Towns.
The great majority of the population of Russia are agriculturists, and dwell in villages. The number of towns and villages in Russia (before the , war), grouped according to population, is given as follows : —
Towns with population
Number
Villages with population
Number
Over 100,000 . 50,000—100,000. 20,000— 50,000. 10,000— 20,000. 3,000— 10,000.
35
71
118
! 315
3,032
1,000—3.000 100—1.000 Under 100.
Towns and villages .
17,724 185,157 521,705
728,157
According to the preliminary data of the census taken in August, 1920,
