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 Total Area: 42.1 thousand sq.km., or 0.25 % of the total area of the Russian Federation.
Capital: Izhevsk (655 600 people).
Major Cities: Votkinsk - 102 000 people, Glazov - 106 000 people, Mozhga - 48 500 people, Sarapul - 107 500 people.
Administrative Structure: 5 cities, 25 administrative districts, 11 towns, 2119 smaller settlements.
Geographical Location: The Udmurt Republic is a republic within the Russian Federation situated in the western part of the Middle Urals between the Kama and the Viatka rivers. The distance between Izhevsk, the capital of the Udmurt Republic, and Moscow, the capital of the Russian Federation, is 1325 km. Distances to other cities: to St.Petersburg - 1904 km; to Ekaterinburg - 800 km; to Kazan - 395 km. In the West and North the Udmurt Republic borders on the Kirov region, in the East - the Perm region, in the south - Bashkortostan and Tatarstan.
Population: 1 636 000 people; urban population - 70 %, rural - 30 %. Density of population - 38.2 people per sq.km.
Nationalities: Russians - 58 %, Udmurts - 31 %, Tatars - 7 %, in total - over 100 nationalities. Indigenous population - the Udmurts, one of the most ancient Finno-Ugric nations. Linguistically the Udmurt language belongs to the Finno-Ugric language family, which also includes the Komi, the Mari, the Mordva, the Estonian, the Finnish, the Karelian, the Saami, the Hungarian, the Khanty and the Mansi languages. Total number of the Udmurts - 750 000 people; 67 % reside in the Udmurt Republic.
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Udmurt Republic in figures and facts