How many Jews live in Jewish Autonomous Oblast?

At its height in the late 1940s, the Jewish population in the region peaked around 46,000–50,000, approximately 25\% of the population….

Jewish Autonomous Oblast
• Total	36,000 km2 (14,000 sq mi)
Area rank	61st
Population (2010 Census)
• Total	176,558

Does Russia have an administrative Jewish region?

Jewish Autonomous Region, Russian Yevreyskaya Avtonomnaya Oblast, also called Birobidzhan, autonomous oblast (region), far eastern Russia, in the basin of the middle Amur River. Birobidzhan is the administrative centre. Area 13,900 square miles (36,000 square km).

How many oblasts are there in Russia?

46
Oblasts of Russia

Oblast
Category	Federated state
Location	Russian Federation
Number	46
Populations	156,996 (Magadan Oblast) – 7,095,120 (Moscow Oblast)

Where is oblast Russia?

An oblast (/ˈɒblæst/; also UK: /ˈɒblɑːst/) is a type of administrative division of Belarus, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Ukraine, as well as the former Soviet Union and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

What is the meaning of the term oblast?

Definition of oblast : a political subdivision of Imperial Russia or a republic of the U.S.S.R. or of Russia.

Is an oblast like a state?

The manner in which most oblasts function is very similar to how a state would in the USA: they have a seat of government, a legislative body, and a governor plus representation in Moscow at the federal level.

Are oblasts independent?

Post-Soviet countries The federal subject status gives the oblasts some degree of autonomy and gives them representation in the Federation Council.