Far Eastern Region of the Russian Federation – situated in the eastern part of the Russian Federation, the area is 6.2 million km2 (36.4 % of Russia’s territory, the largest region). The population is 8.1 million people. The region includes nine subjects of the Russian Federation: the Sakha Republic (Yakutia); Primorskiy, Khabarovskiy, and Kamchatskiy Krai; Amur, Magadan, and Sakhalin Oblast; and Jewish Autonomous Okrug and Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. It has a very favorable geographic location, being washed by the Arctic and Pacific Oceans and by the Laptev, East Siberian, and Chukchi Seas in the north and the Bering and Okhotsk Seas and the Sea of Japan in the east. Has land borders with China and North Korea in the south and sea borders with Japan across the La Perouse Strait in the east and with the USA across the Bering Strait in the northeast.
Far Eastern Region of the Russian Federation (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Far_East)
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(2016). Far Eastern Region of the Russian Federation. In: Zonn, I.S., Kostianoy, A.G., Semenov, A.V. (eds) The Eastern Arctic Seas Encyclopedia. Encyclopedia of Seas. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24237-8_179
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