Northwestern Federal District

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Northwestern Federal District (Russian: Се́веро-За́падный федера́льный о́круг; tr.: Severo-zapadny federalny okrug) is one of the seven federal districts of Russia. It consists of the northern part of European Russia. Its population was 13,974,466 in the 2002 Census, living on an area of 1,677,900 km² (647,840.8 mi²). The current Envoy to the Northwestern Federal District is Ilya Klebanov.

Subdivisions, with republics (that enjoy a high degree of autonomy on most issues and correspond to some of Russia's ethnic minorities) marked with an asterisk:

Arkhangelsk Oblast
- Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Kaliningrad Oblast (with no land connection to the rest of Russia)
Republic of Karelia^*
Komi Republic^*
Leningrad Oblast
Murmansk Oblast
Novgorod Oblast
Pskov Oblast
Federal city of Saint Petersburg
Vologda Oblast

[edit] Presidential plenipotentiary envoys

Viktor Cherkesov (May 18, 2000, – March 11, 2003)
Valentina Matviyenko (March 11, 2003, – October 15, 2003)
Ilya Klebanov (since November 1, 2003)

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Administrative divisions of Russia

Federal subjects

Republics	Adygea \| Altai \| Bashkortostan \| Buryatia \| Chechnya \| Chuvashia \| Dagestan \| Ingushetia \| Kabardino-Balkaria \| Kalmykia \| Karachay-Cherkessia \|Karelia \| Khakassia \| Komi \| Mari El \| Mordovia \| North Ossetia-Alania \| Sakha \| Tatarstan \| Tuva \| Udmurtia
Krais	Altai \| Khabarovsk \| Krasnodar \| Krasnoyarsk \| Perm \| Primorsky \| Stavropol
Oblasts	Amur \| Arkhangelsk \| Astrakhan \| Belgorod \| Bryansk \| Chelyabinsk \| Chita¹ \| Irkutsk² \| Ivanovo \| Kaliningrad \| Kaluga \| Kamchatka³ \| Kemerovo \| Kirov \| Kostroma \| Kurgan \| Kursk \| Leningrad \| Lipetsk \| Magadan \| Moscow \| Murmansk \| Nizhny Novgorod \| Novgorod \| Novosibirsk \| Omsk \| Orenburg \| Oryol \| Penza \| Pskov \| Rostov \| Ryazan \| Sakhalin \| Samara \| Saratov \| Smolensk \| Sverdlovsk \| Tambov \| Tomsk \| Tula \| Tver \| Tyumen \| Ulyanovsk \| Vladimir \| Volgograd \| Vologda \| Voronezh \| Yaroslavl
Federal cities	Moscow \| St. Petersburg
Autonomous oblast	Jewish
Autonomous okrugs	Aga Buryatia¹ \| Chukotka \| Khantia-Mansia \| Koryakia³ \| Nenetsia \| Ust-Orda Buryatia² \| Yamalia