Tyumen Oblast

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Tyumen Oblast (Russian: ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) in Urals Federal District. Its administrative center is the city of Tyumen. It contains two autonomous districts, Khantia-Mansia, and Yamalia. Excluding the autonomous districts, Tyumen Oblast has an area of 159,869.7 km² (including the autonomies, it is Russia's third largest subdivision) and a population of 3,264,841 (2002 census). Tyumen is the largest city, with over half a million inhabitants.

Contents

1 Geography

1.1 Time zone

2 Administrative divisions

2.1 Districts

3 External link

Geography

Time zone

Tyumen Oblast is located in the Yekaterinburg Time Zone (YEKT/YEKST). UTC offset is +0500 (YEKT)/+0600 (YEKST).

Administrative divisions

Districts

Tyumen Oblast consists of the following districts (raions):

Abatsky (Абатский)
Armizonsky (Армизонский)
Aromashevsky (Аромашевский)
Berdyuzhsky (Бердюжский)
Golyshmanovsky (Голышмановский)
Isetsky (Исетский)
Ishimsky (Ишимский)
Kazansky (Казанский)
Nizhnetavdinsky (Нижнетавдинский)
Omutinsky (Омутинский)
Sladovsky (Сладовский)
Sorokinsky (Сорокинский)
Tobolsky (Тобольский)
Tyumensky (Тюменский)
Uporovsky (Упоровский)
Uvatsky (Уватский)
Vagaysky (Вагайский)
Vikulovsky (Викуловский)
Yalutorovsky (Ялуторский)
Yarkovsky (Ярковский)
Yurginsky (Юргинский)
Zavodoukovsky (Заводоуковский)

External link

() [Official website of Tyumen Oblast].

Administrative subdivisions of Russia

Federal subjects

Republics	Adygeya \| Altai \| Bashkortostan \| Buryatia \| Chechnya \| Chuvashia \| Dagestan \| Ingushetia \| Kabardino-Balkaria \| Karelia \| Khakassia \| Komi \| Kalmykia \| Karachay-Cherkessia \| Mari El \| Mordovia \| North Ossetia-Alania \| Sakha \| Tatarstan \| Tuva \| Udmurtia
Krais	Altai \| Khabarovsk \| Krasnodar \| Krasnoyarsk¹ \| Perm \| Primorsky \| Stavropol
Oblasts	Amur \| Arkhangelsk \| Astrakhan \| Belgorod \| Bryansk \| Chelyabinsk \| Chita \| 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 districts	Aga Buryatia \| Chukotka \| Evenkia¹ \| Khantia-Mansia \| Koryakia³ \| Nenetsia \| Taymyria¹ \| Ust-Orda Buryatia² \| Yamalia

On 1 January 2007, Evenkia and Taymyria will be merged into Krasnoyarsk Krai.
On 1 January 2008, Ust-Orda Buryatia will be merged into Irkutsk Oblast.
On 1 July 2007, Kamchatka Oblast and Koryakia will merge to form Kamchatka Krai.

Federal districts

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