TheFar Eastern Federal District (Russian:Дальневосточный федеральный округ,IPA:[dəlʲnʲɪvɐˈstot͡ɕnɨjfʲɪdʲɪˈralʲnɨjˈokrʊk]) is the largest and the least populatedfederal district ofRussia, with a population of around 7.9 million and an area of 6,952,555 square kilometres (2,684,396 square miles). The federal district is withinNorth Asia as per theUN geoscheme and it is coextensive with theRussian Far East.
On 15 July 2022, the first high-speed highway was opened in the Far Eastern Federal District. It united three federal highways – Ussuri (Khabarovsk–Vladivostok),Amur (Chita–Khabarovsk) andVostok (Khabarovsk–Nakhodka), and connect the regional capital withKomsomolsk-on-Amur, as well as sites of the territory of the advancing socio-economic development (SAD).[8]
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) inKhabarovsk Krai, Ussuriysk (9th), Nakhodka (11th), Artyom (12th) inPrimorsky Krai) are not administrative centres of a federal subject. Anadyr, the centre ofChukotka Autonomous Okrug, is one of the smallest centres of a federal subject (it has only 13,045 inhabitants). OnlyMagas, the centre ofIngushetia, is smaller than Anadyr.
Artyom is a large suburb of the Vladivostok metropolitan area.[10]
According to a 2012 survey[11] 27.4% of the population of the current federal subjects of the Far Eastern Federal District (including Buryatia and Zabaykalsky Krai) adheres to theRussian 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 ofBuddhism, 0.7% is an adherent ofIslam, and 2.2% adhere to some native faith such asRodnovery,Tengrism,Yellow shamanism, orBlack shamanism. In addition, 27.0% of the population declares to be "spiritual but not religious", 23.5% isatheist, and 9.5% follows other religions or did not give an answer to the question.[11]
Ethnic map of the Far Eastern Federal District by urban and rural settlements, 2010 census. This map was from beforeZabaykalsky Krai andBuryatia were added to the region.
The ethnic composition, according to the 2021 census (after the integration ofBuryatia andZabaykalsky Krai in 2018) was:
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