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#	Flag	Coat of arms	Federal subject	Area in km2[1]	Population (2021 census)	GDP[8]	Capital/Administrative center	Map of Administrative Division
1			Amur Oblast	361,900	766,912	₽531 billion	Blagoveshchensk
2			Republic of Buryatia	351,300	978,588	₽342 billion	Ulan-Ude
3			Jewish Autonomous Oblast	36,300	150,453	₽79 billion	Birobidzhan
4			Zabaykalsky Krai	431,900	1,004,125	₽487 billion	Chita
5			Kamchatka Krai	464,300	291,705	₽338 billion	Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
6			Magadan Oblast	462,500	136,085	₽315 billion	Magadan
7			Primorsky Krai	164,700	1,845,165	₽1,309 billion	Vladivostok
8			Sakha Republic	3,083,500	995,686	₽1,616 billion	Yakutsk
9			Sakhalin Oblast	87,100	466,609	₽1,234 billion	Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
10			Khabarovsk Krai	787,600	1,292,944	₽987 billion	Khabarovsk
11			Chukotka Autonomous Okrug	721,500	47,490	₽136 billion	Anadyr

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Largest cities with a population over 75,000

There are 82 cities in the Far Eastern Federal District, and 13 cities have populations over 75,000.

Only four of these 13 cities (Komsomolsk-on-Amur (7th) in Khabarovsk Krai, Ussuriysk (9th), Nakhodka (11th), Artyom (12th) in Primorsky Krai) are not administrative centres of a federal subject. Anadyr, the centre of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, is one of the smallest centres of a federal subject (it has only 13,045 inhabitants). Only Magas, the centre of Ingushetia, is smaller than Anadyr.

Artyom is a large suburb of the Vladivostok metropolitan area.^[9]

Populations are given as of the 2021 census:

1. Khabarovsk: 617,441
2. Vladivostok: 603,519
3. Ulan-Ude: 437,565
4. Yakutsk: 355,443
5. Chita: 334,427
6. Blagoveshchensk: 241,437
7. Komsomolsk-on-Amur: 238,505
8. Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk: 181,587
9. Ussuriysk: 180,393
10. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky: 164,900
11. Nakhodka: 139,931
12. Artyom: 109,556
13. Magadan: 90,757

Religion

According to a 2012 survey^[10] 27.4% of the population of the current federal subjects of the Far Eastern Federal District (including Buryatia and Zabaykalsky Krai) adheres to the Russian Orthodox Church, 5.0% are unaffiliated generic Christians, 1.4% is an Orthodox believer without belonging to any church or adheres to other (non-Russian) Orthodox churches, 3.3% is an adherent of Buddhism, 0.7% is an adherent of Islam, and 2.2% adhere to some native faith such as Rodnovery, Tengrism, Yellow shamanism, or Black shamanism. In addition, 27.0% of the population declares to be "spiritual but not religious", 23.5% is atheist, and 9.5% follows other religions or did not give an answer to the question.^[10]

Ethnicity

The ethnic composition, according to the 2021 census (after the integration of Buryatia and Zabaykalsky Krai in 2018) was:

• Total – 6,979,578 people
• Russians – 5,674,671 (81.30%)
• Yakuts – 472,116 (6.76%)
• Buryats – 371,677 (5.33%)
• Ukrainians – 47,560 (0.68%)
• Evenki – 33,760 (0.48%)
• Koreans – 29,855 (0.43%)
• Tatars – 24,605 (0.35%)
• Uzbeks – 23,477 (0.34%)
• Armenians – 20,185 (0.29%)
• Kyrgyz – 19,659 (0.28%)
• Evens (Lamuts) – 19,561 (0.28%)
• Tajiks – 17,812 (0.26%)
• Chukchi – 15,686 (0.22%)
• Azerbaijanis – 13,011 (0.19%)
• Nanai – 11,424 (0.16%)
• Chinese – 8,396 (0.12%)
• Belarusians – 7,944 (0.11%)
• Koryaks – 7,292 (0.10%)
• Kazakhs – 4,614 (0.07%)
• Bashkirs – 4,391 (0.06%)
• Nivkh – 3,758 (0.05%)
• Germans – 3,564 (0.05%)
• Chuvash – 2,906 (0.04%)
• Moldovans – 2,851 (0.04%)
• Mordva – 2,675 (0.04%)
• Jews – 2,529 (0.04%)
• Ulchi – 2,431 (0.03%)
• Yukaghir – 1,747 (0.03%)
• Itelmens – 1,486 (0.02%)
• Mari – 1,230 (0.02%)
• Individuals who did not indicate nationality – 996,184 (12.49%)