The Moscow metropolitan area (Russian: Московская агломерация) or Moscow capital region (Russian: Московский столичный регион) is the most populous metropolitan area in Russia as well as in Europe, with a population of around 21.5 million. It consists of the city of Moscow and surrounding areas in Moscow Oblast.
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The related term Moscow region (Московский регион) is used unofficially to describe Moscow and Moscow Oblast together. However, formally, they are two separate federal subjects.
The Moscow metropolitan area includes the city of Moscow, population 12,197,596,[4] a ring of cities annexed to it and administered within (Balashikha, Korolyov, Krasnogorsk, Khimki, Mytishchi and Zelenograd), as well as large nearby towns with population of over 100,000 citizens (Reutov, Zheleznodorozhny, Podolsk and Lubertsy, to name a few) that fall under regional administration.[5] Administratively, all those towns are a part of the Moscow Oblast. The metropolitan area has thus no coordinated administration structures, and no official population statistics.
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Historical population
Year
Pop.
±%
1897
2,430,615
—
1926
6,590,336
+171.1%
1959
10,895,003
+65.3%
1970
12,716,490
+16.7%
1979
14,189,894
+11.6%
1989
15,660,955
+10.4%
2002
17,001,292
+8.6%
2010
18,598,621
+9.4%
2021
21,534,777
+15.8%
Source: Census data
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The population of the Moscow region is the sum of populations of the city (13,010,112) and surrounding oblast (8,524,665), coming to 21,534,777 – about 14% of the entire Russian population.
