One of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, which is part of the Siberian Federal District, is the Kemerovo Region. The area of the region is 95 thousand km 2 , according to this indicator it occupies 34th place, and in terms of population - 17. 2.7 million people live in it. The list of cities of the Kemerovo region, in addition to the regional center, includes 19 administrative-territorial units. The main population is urban, its share for 2017 was 85%. According to statistics, this is one of the areas where most people live outside the Urals, i.e., in the Asian part of the country.
Cities of the Kemerovo region: list
Before making a list of cities, it should be said about the main city of the region - Kemerovo, where about 550 thousand people live.
This is not a very large city in Russia, it occupies the 50th place by area, located in the south of the region on the banks of the Tom and Iskitimka rivers. In the last century, the coal industry was actively developing here, today chemical, food and light industries were added to it, and medium and small businesses are also developing well.
Other cities in the list of the Kemerovo region:
- Novokuznetsk.
- Salair.
- Taiga.
- Yurga.
- Belovo.
- Anzhero-Sudzhensk.
- Mariinsk.
- Kiselevsk.
- Aspen.
- Prokopyevsk.
- Tashtagol.
- Kaltan.
- Berezovsky.
- Fireboxes.
- Polysaevo.
- Guryevsk.
- Leninsk-Kuznetsk.
- Toes.
- Mezhdurechensk.
Cities of the Kemerovo region: list by population
Cities are completely different in terms of population, density, and the history of creation. Some of them arose in the 17th century, such as Novokuznetsk or Mariinsk, others only in the middle of the last century, like Berezovsky or Kaltan. But most often the cities of the Kemerovo region or another region are compared in number.
The most densely populated, of course, is the administrative center - Kemerovo. Next is Novokuznetsk, where almost the same number of 550 thousand people live, and the next city is the young Mezhdurechensk, which arose in 1946. Less than 100 thousand people live here, or rather 98 thousand for 2016.
Large and small cities
The largest cities of the Kemerovo region from the list are the ones listed above. However, there is an exception: 81 thousand people live in the city of Ugra, but in terms of area it is one of the smallest cities.
The smallest in terms of population are the cities of Guryevsk and Tashtagol, where 28 thousand people live, as well as the city of Kaltan with a population of 21 thousand, and the smallest is Salair, where only 7 thousand people live, despite the fact that the settlement was established in 1626 .