The Moscow metropolitan area () or Moscow capital region () is the most populous metropolitan area in Russia and Europe, with a population of around 21.5 million. It consists of the city of Moscow and surrounding areas in Moscow Oblast.
The related term Moscow region () is used unofficially to describe Moscow and Moscow Oblast together. However, formally, they are two separate federal subjects.
Structure and population estimation
Subdivision Area km2 Population GDP GDP per capita 2562 13,010,112 ₽ ₽ 44300 8,524,665 ₽ ₽ Moscow metropolitan area 46862 21,534,777 ₽ ₽
The Moscow metropolitan area includes the city of Moscow, population 12,197,596,Rosstat. Popul2015.xls a ring of cities annexed to it and administered within (Balashikha, Korolyov, Krasnogorsk, Khimki, Mytishchi and Zelenograd), as well as large nearby towns with population of over 100,000 citizens (Reutov, Zheleznodorozhny, Podolsk and Lubertsy, to name a few) that fall under regional administration.Information taken and translated directly from the Russian Wikipedia page, using its sources. Administratively, all those towns are a part of the Moscow Oblast. The metropolitan area has thus no coordinated administration structures, and no official population statistics.The population of the Moscow region is the sum of populations of the city (13,010,112) and surrounding oblast (8,524,665), coming to 21,534,777 – about 14% of the entire Russian population.
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