Back Krai-krai di Rusia ACE Territorios de Rusia AN كرايات روسيا Arabic كرايات روسيا ARZ Krais de Rusia AST Rusiya diyarları Azerbaijani Край (Расія) Byelorussian Краеве в Руската федерация Bulgarian Krajevi u Rusiji BS Krais de Rússia Catalan
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| Category | Federated state | |
| Location |  Russian Federation | |
| Number | 9 | |
| Populations | 322,079 (Kamchatka Krai) – 5,404,300 (Krasnodar Krai) | |
| Areas | 25,540 sq mi (66,160 km2) (Stavropol Krai) – 903,400 sq mi (2,339,700 km2) (Krasnoyarsk Krai)[1] | |
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A krai (Russian: край, romanized: kray, IPA: [kraj], lit. 'region, edge') is a type of federal subject of the Russian Federation. The country is divided into 85 federal subjects, of which nine are krais.[2] Oblasts, another type of federal subject, are legally identical to krais and the difference between a political entity with the name "krai" or "oblast" is purely traditional; both are constituent entities equivalent in legal status in Russia with representation in the Federation Council. During the Soviet era, the autonomous oblasts could be subordinated to republics or krais, but not to oblasts. Outside of political terminology, both words have a very similar general meaning ("region" or "area" in English) and can often be used interchangeably. When a distinction is desirable, "krai" is sometimes translated into English as "territory",[3] (closer to "edge" in literal translation, what's more related with the March meaning as a "borderland") while "oblast" can variously be translated to "province" or "region", but both of these translations are also reasonable interpretations of "krai".
- ^ "United States Summary: 2000" (PDF). U.S. Census 2000. U. S. Census Bureau. April 2004. Retrieved June 19, 2018.
- ^ Heaney, Dominic, ed. (2023). "The Government of the Russian Federation". The Territories of the Russian Federation 2023 (24th ed.). Abingdon: Routledge. pp. 43–51. ISBN 9781032469744.
Including the two territories in Crimea, the 85 territories comprise 22 republics, nine krais (provinces), 46 oblasts (regions), three cities of federal status (Moscow, St Petersburg and Sevastopol), one autonomous oblast and four autonomous okrugs.
- ^ "Russian tower block in flames as aircraft crashes". BBC News. October 17, 2022. Retrieved October 17, 2022.