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{{About|the administrative subdivision|the geographical region|Russian Far East}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2023}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name               = Far Eastern Federal District
| native_name        = Дальневосточный федеральный округ
| native_name_lang   = ru
| settlement_type    = [[Federal districts of Russia|Federal district]]
| image_map          = Map of Russia - Far Eastern Federal District (2018 composition).svg
| map_caption        = Location of the Far Eastern Federal District
| subdivision_type   = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
| subdivision_name   = {{RUS}}
| established_title  = Established
| established_date   = 13 May 2000
| seat_type          = Administrative center
| seat               = [[Vladivostok]]
| leader_title       = Presidential Envoy
| leader_name        = [[Yury Trutnev]]
| unit_pref          = Metric
| area_total_km2     = 6,952,555
| area_rank          = 1st of 8 (40.6% of the country)
| area_footnotes     = <ref name="area">{{Cite web |title=1.1. ОСНОВНЫЕ СОЦИАЛЬНО-ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКИЕ ПОКАЗАТЕЛИ в 2014 г. |trans-title=Main Socioeconomic Indicators 2014 |url=http://www.gks.ru/bgd/regl/b15_14p/IssWWW.exe/Stg/d01/01-01-1.doc |access-date=26 July 2016 |website=Regions of Russia. Socioeconomic indicators – 2015 |publisher=[[Russian Federal State Statistics Service]] |language=ru}}</ref>
| population_total   = 7,975,762
| total_type         = Total
| population_as_of   = 2021<ref name="2021 Census provisional results">{{cite web|language=ru|url=https://rosstat.gov.ru/storage/mediabank/tecst_VPN-2020.docx|title=Provisional results of the 2020 All-Russian population census|date=2022-05-30|publisher=Rosstat|access-date=2022-05-30}}</ref>
| population_rank    = 8th of 8 (5.6% of the country)
| population_density_km2 = auto
| population_urban   = 73.6%
| population_rural   = 26.4%
| timezone_link      = Time in Russia
| timezone1_location = [[Buryatia]]
| timezone1          = [[Irkutsk Time]]
| utc_offset1        = +08:00
| timezone2_location = [[Amur Oblast]], [[Zabaykalsky Krai]] and most of the [[Sakha Republic]] <small>(excluding districts in UTC+10:00 and UTC+11:00 time zones)</small>
| timezone2          = [[Yakutsk Time]]
| utc_offset2        = +09:00
| timezone3_location = [[Jewish Autonomous Oblast]], [[Khabarovsk Krai]], [[Primorsky Krai]], and the [[Oymyakonsky]], [[Ust-Yansky]] and [[Verkhoyansky]] districts of the [[Sakha Republic]]
| timezone3          = [[Vladivostok Time]]
| utc_offset3        = +10:00
| timezone4_location = [[Magadan Oblast]], [[Sakhalin Oblast]], and the [[Abyysky]], [[Allaikhovsky]], [[Momsky]], [[Nizhnekolymsky]], [[Srednekolymsky]] and [[Verkhnekolymsky]] districts of the [[Sakha Republic]]
| timezone4          = [[Magadan Time]]
| utc_offset4        = +11:00
| timezone5_location = [[Chukotka Autonomous Okrug|Chukotka]] and [[Kamchatka Krai]]
| timezone5          = [[Kamchatka Time]]
| utc_offset5        = +12:00
| blank_name_sec1    = Federal subjects
| blank_info_sec1    = 11 contained
| blank1_name_sec1   = Economic regions
| blank1_info_sec1   = 1 contained
| demographics_type2       = GDP
| demographics2_footnotes  = <ref name=GDP>{{citation |url= https://rosstat.gov.ru/storage/mediabank/VRP_s_1998.xlsx 
|title=Валовой региональный продукт по субъектам Российской Федерации в 2016-2022 гг.
|publisher= rosstat.gov.ru}}</ref>
|demographics2_title1     = Total
|demographics2_info1      = ₽8.656 trillion<br />US$124 billion (2022)
|demographics2_title2     = Per capita
|demographics2_info2      = ₽1,090,778<br />US$15,606 (2022)
| blank_name_sec2    = [[Human Development Index|HDI]] (2022)
| blank_info_sec2    = 0.769<ref name="GlobalDataLab">{{Cite web |title=Sub-national HDI{{snd}}Area Database{{snd}}Global Data Lab |url=https://hdi.globaldatalab.org/areadata/shdi/ |access-date=2021-07-20 |website=hdi.globaldatalab.org |language=en}}</ref><br/>{{color|#0c0|high}} · [[List of federal subjects of Russia by Human Development Index|5th]]
| website            = [http://www.dfo.gov.ru/ DFO.gov.ru]
| footnotes          = {{Infobox mapframe |wikidata=yes |zoom=0 |coord={{WikidataCoord|display=i}}}}
}}

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[[File:Вид на долину р. Бикин с видовой площадки (гора Клин).jpg|thumb|Bikin National Park, Primorsky Krai]]
The '''Far Eastern Federal District''' ({{lang-rus|Дальневосточный федеральный округ|p=dəlʲnʲɪvɐˈstot͡ɕnɨj fʲɪdʲɪˈralʲnɨj ˈokrʊk}}) is the largest and the least populated [[federal districts of Russia|federal district]] of [[Russia]], with a population of around 7.9 million and an area of {{convert|6952555|km2|sqmi|0|abbr=off}}. The federal district is within [[North Asia]] as per the [[United Nations geoscheme|UN geoscheme]] and it is coextensive with the [[Russian Far East]].

==History==
{{See also|Russian Far East#History|l1=History of the Russian Far East}}

The Far Eastern Federal District was established on 13 May 2000 by [[President of Russia|President]] [[Vladimir Putin]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Указ Президента Российской Федерации о полномочном представителе Президента Российской Федерации в федеральном округе |trans-title= Decree of the President of the Russian Federation on the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Federal District |first=V. |last=Putin |date=13 May 2000 |url= https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B7_%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B0_%D0%A0%D0%A4_%D0%BE%D1%82_13.05.2000_%E2%84%96_849 |language=ru |via=Wikisource |access-date=27 June 2024}}</ref> It is currently governed by presidential envoy [[Yury Trutnev]]. In November 2018, [[Buryatia]] and [[Zabaykalsky Krai]] were added to the federal district.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации |url=http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201811040002?index=0&rangeSize=1 |access-date=2018-11-04 |website=publication.pravo.gov.ru |archive-date=5 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220205162518/http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201811040002?index=0&rangeSize=1 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The seat of the Far Eastern Federal District was moved from [[Khabarovsk]] to [[Vladivostok]] in December 2018.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://meduza.io/news/2018/12/13/putin-perenes-stolitsu-dalnevostochnogo-federalnogo-okruga-vo-vladivostok |access-date=2018-12-13 |website=meduza.io|title=Путин перенес столицу Дальневосточного федерального округа во Владивосток }}</ref>

On 15 July 2022, the first high-speed highway was opened in the Far Eastern Federal District. It united three federal highways[[A370 highway (Russia)|{{snd}}Ussuri]] (Khabarovsk{{ndash}}Vladivostok), [[Amur Highway|Amur]] ([[Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai|Chita]]{{ndash}}Khabarovsk) and [[A375 Highway|Vostok]] (Khabarovsk[[Nakhodka|{{ndash}}Nakhodka]]), and connect the regional capital with [[Komsomolsk-on-Amur]], as well as sites of the territory of the advancing socio-economic development (SAD).<ref>{{Cite news |title=Доев Дмитрий: "Обход Хабаровска" – флагман дорожных концессий Группы "ВИС" |language=ru |work=PRIMPRESS.RU |url=https://primpress.ru/article/90381 |access-date=2023-03-30}}</ref>

==Demographics==
[[File:Far East Federal District.svg|thumb|Population pyramid as of the 2021 Russian Census]]

===Federal subjects===
[[File:Far Eastern Federal District (numbered, 2018 composition).svg|400px|Far Eastern Federal District]]
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center;"
! #
! Flag
! Coat of arms
! Federal subject
! Area in<br>km<sup>2</sup><ref name=area/>
! Population<br>(2021 census)
! GDP<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://rosstat.gov.ru/storage/mediabank/VRP_s_1998.xlsx|title = Валовой региональный продукт|website=rosstat.gov.ru}}</ref>
! Capital/Administrative center
! Map of Administrative Division
|-
! 1
| [[File:Flag of Amur Oblast.svg|50px|border]]
| [[File:Amurskaja obl coa 2008.png|50px|border]]
| [[Amur Oblast]]
| align="right"|361,900
| align="right"|766,912
| ₽531 billion
| [[Blagoveshchensk]]
| [[File:Outline Map of Amur Oblast.svg|50px|border]]
|-
!2
| [[File:Flag_of_Buryatia.svg|border|50px]]
| [[File:Coat of Arms of Buryatia.svg|50px|border]]
| [[Buryatia|Republic of Buryatia]]
| align="right"|351,300
| align="right"|978,588
| ₽342 billion
| [[Ulan-Ude]]
| [[File:Outline Map of Buryatia.svg|50px|border]]
|-
! 3
| [[File:Flag of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast.svg|50px|border]]
| [[File:Coat of arms of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast.svg|50px|border]]
| [[Jewish Autonomous Oblast]]
| align="right"|36,300
| align="right"|150,453
| ₽79 billion
| [[Birobidzhan]]
| [[File:Outline Map of Jewish AO.svg|50px|border]]
|-
!4
| [[File:Flag_of_Zabaykalsky_Krai.svg|border|50px]]
| [[File:Coat of arms of Zabaykalsky Krai.svg|50px|border]]
| [[Zabaykalsky Krai]]
| align="right"|431,900
| align="right"|1,004,125
| ₽487 billion
| [[Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai|Chita]]
| [[File:Outline Map of Zabaikalsky Krai.svg|50px|border]]
|-
! 5
| [[File:Flag of Kamchatka Krai.svg|50px|border]]
| [[File:Coat of Arms of Kamchatka Krai.svg|50px|border]]
| [[Kamchatka Krai]]
| align="right"|464,300
| align="right"|291,705
| ₽338 billion
| [[Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky]]
| [[File:Outline Map of Kamchatka Krai.png|50px|border]]
|-
! 6
| [[File:Flag of Magadan Oblast.svg|50px|border]]
| [[File:Coat of Arms of Magadan oblast.svg|50px|border]]
| [[Magadan Oblast]]
| align="right"|462,500
| align="right"|136,085
| ₽315 billion
| [[Magadan]]
| [[File:Outline Map of Magadan Oblast.svg|50px|border]]
|-
! 7
| [[File:Flag of Primorsky Krai.svg|50px|border]]
| [[File:Coat of arms of Primorsky Krai.svg|50px|border]]
| [[Primorsky Krai]]
| align="right"|164,700
| align="right"|1,845,165
| ₽1,309 billion
| '''[[Vladivostok]]'''
| [[File:Russia Primorsky Krai location map.svg|50px|border]]
|-
! 8
| [[File:Flag of Sakha.svg|50px|border]]
| [[File:Coat of Arms of Sakha (Yakutia).svg|50px|border]]
| [[Sakha Republic]]
| align="right"|3,083,500
| align="right"|995,686
| ₽1,616 billion
| [[Yakutsk]]
| [[File:Yakutia notext.svg|50px|border]]
|-
! 9
| [[File:Flag of Sakhalin Oblast.svg|50px|border]]
| [[File:Sakhalin Oblast Coat of Arms.svg|50px|border]]
| [[Sakhalin Oblast]]
| align="right"|87,100
| align="right"|466,609
| ₽1,234 billion
| [[Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk]]
| [[File:Outline Map of Sakhalin Oblast.svg|50px|border]]
|-
! 10
| [[File:Flag of Khabarovsk Krai.svg|50px|border]]
| [[File:Coat of arms of Khabarovsk Krai.svg|50px|border]]
| [[Khabarovsk Krai]]
| align="right"|787,600
| align="right"|1,292,944
| ₽987 billion
| [[Khabarovsk]]
| [[File:Russia Khabarovsk Krai location map.svg|50px|border]]
|-
! 11
| [[File:Flag of Chukotka.svg|50px|border]]
| [[File:Coat of Arms of Chukotka.svg|50px|border]]
| [[Chukotka Autonomous Okrug]]
| align="right"|721,500
| align="right"|47,490
| ₽136 billion
| [[Anadyr (town)|Anadyr]]
| [[File:Russia Chukotka Autonomous Okrug location map.svg|50px|border]]
|}
{{Historical populations|7=1959|8=6543859|9=1970|10=7737678|11=1979|12=8946829|13=1989|14=10359773|15=2002|16=8829449|17=2010|18=8372257|19=2021|20=7975762|type=|footnote=Source: Census data}}[[File:Pekulneyskoe Lake.JPG|thumb|[[Lake Pekulney]], Chukotka]]

=== Largest cities with a population over 75,000 ===
There are 82 cities in the Far Eastern Federal District, and 13 cities have populations over 75,000.

Only four of these 13 cities (Komsomolsk-on-Amur (7th) in [[Khabarovsk Krai]], Ussuriysk (9th), Nakhodka (11th), Artyom (12th) in [[Primorsky Krai]]) are not administrative centres of a federal subject. Anadyr, the centre of [[Chukotka Autonomous Okrug]], is one of the smallest centres of a federal subject (it has only 13,045 inhabitants). Only [[Magas, Ingushetia|Magas]], the centre of [[Ingushetia]], is smaller than Anadyr.

Artyom is a large suburb of the Vladivostok metropolitan area.<ref name="vlad">[http://rg.ru/2014/10/28/reg-dfo/aglomeracia-anons.html Подписано соглашение о создании Владивостокской агломерации] {{in lang|ru}}</ref>

Populations are given as of the [[2021 Russian census|2021 census]]:
#[[Khabarovsk]]: 617,441
#'''[[Vladivostok]]''': 603,519
#[[Ulan-Ude]]: 437,565
#[[Yakutsk]]: 355,443
#[[Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai|Chita]]: 334,427
#[[Blagoveshchensk]]: 241,437
#[[Komsomolsk-on-Amur]]: 238,505
#[[Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk]]: 181,587
#[[Ussuriysk]]: 180,393
#[[Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky]]: 164,900
#[[Nakhodka]]: 139,931
#[[Artyom, Russia|Artyom]]: 109,556
#[[Magadan]]: 90,757

===Religion===
{{Bar box
|title=Religion in the Far Eastern Federal District as of 2012 (Sreda Arena Atlas)<ref name="2012ArenaAtlas">[http://sreda.org/en/arena "Arena: Atlas of Religions and Nationalities in Russia"]. Sreda, 2012.</ref><ref name="2012Arena-religion-maps">[http://c2.kommersant.ru/ISSUES.PHOTO/OGONIOK/2012/034/ogcyhjk2.jpg 2012 Arena Atlas Religion Maps]. "Ogonek", № 34 (5243), 27 August 2012. Retrieved 21 April 2017. [https://web.archive.org/web/20170421154615/http://c2.kommersant.ru/ISSUES.PHOTO/OGONIOK/2012/034/ogcyhjk2.jpg Archived].</ref>
|float=right
|bars=
{{Bar percent|[[Russian Orthodox Church|Russian Orthodoxy]]|DarkOrchid|27.4}}
{{Bar percent|Other [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox]]|MediumOrchid|1.4}}
{{Bar percent|Other [[Christianity in Russia|Christians]]|DeepSkyBlue|5.0}}
{{Bar percent|[[Buddhism in Russia|Buddhism]]|Yellow|3.3}}
{{Bar percent|[[Islam in Russia|Islam]]|Green|0.7}}
{{Bar percent|Native faiths|Red|2.2}}
{{Bar percent|[[Spiritual but not religious]]|DarkSlateGray|27.0}}
{{Bar percent|[[Atheism]] and [[irreligion]]|Black|23.5}}
{{Bar percent|Other and undeclared|Gray|9.5}}
}}

According to a 2012 survey<ref name="2012ArenaAtlas"/> 27.4% of the population of the current federal subjects of the Far Eastern Federal District (including Buryatia and Zabaykalsky Krai) adheres to the [[Russian Orthodox Church]], 5.0% are unaffiliated generic Christians, 1.4% is an Orthodox believer without belonging to any church or adheres to other (non-Russian) [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox church]]es, 3.3% is an adherent of [[Buddhism]], 0.7% is an adherent of [[Islam]], and 2.2% adhere to some native faith such as [[Rodnovery]], [[Tengrism]], [[Yellow shamanism]], or [[Black shamanism]]. In addition, 27.0% of the population declares to be "spiritual but not religious", 23.5% is [[atheism|atheist]], and 9.5% follows other religions or did not give an answer to the question.<ref name="2012ArenaAtlas"/>
{{clear}}

===Ethnicity===
[[File:Этническая карта ДФО по городским и сельским поселениям.png|thumb|500px|Ethnic map of the Far Eastern Federal District by urban and rural settlements, 2010 census. This map was from before [[Zabaykalsky Krai]] and [[Buryatia]] were added to the region.]]
The ethnic composition, according to the 2021 census (after the integration of [[Buryatia]] and [[Zabaykalsky Krai]] in 2018) was:
* Total{{snd}}6,979,578 people
* [[Russians]]{{snd}}5,674,671 (81.30%)
* [[Yakuts]]{{snd}}472,116 (6.76%)
* [[Buryats]]{{snd}}371,677 (5.33%)
* [[Ukrainians]]{{snd}}47,560 (0.68%)
* [[Evenks|Evenki]]{{snd}}33,760 (0.48%)
* [[Koreans]]{{snd}}29,855 (0.43%)
* [[Tatars]]{{snd}}24,605 (0.35%)
* [[Uzbeks]]{{snd}}23,477 (0.34%)
* [[Armenians]]{{snd}}20,185 (0.29%)
* [[Kyrgyz people|Kyrgyz]]{{snd}}19,659 (0.28%)
* [[Evens]] (Lamuts){{snd}}19,561 (0.28%)
* [[Tajiks]]{{snd}}17,812 (0.26%)
* [[Chukchi people|Chukchi]]{{snd}}15,686 (0.22%)
* [[Azerbaijanis]]{{snd}}13,011 (0.19%)
* [[Nanai people|Nanai]]{{snd}}11,424 (0.16%)
* [[Chinese people|Chinese]]{{snd}}8,396 (0.12%)
* [[Belarusians]]{{snd}}7,944 (0.11%)
* [[Koryaks]]{{snd}}7,292 (0.10%)
* [[Kazakhs]]{{snd}}4,614 (0.07%)
* [[Bashkirs]]{{snd}}4,391 (0.06%)
* [[Nivkhi|Nivkh]]{{snd}}3,758 (0.05%)
* [[Germans]]{{snd}}3,564 (0.05%)
* [[Chuvash people|Chuvash]]{{snd}}2,906 (0.04%)
* [[Moldovans]]{{snd}}2,851 (0.04%)
* [[Mordva]]{{snd}}2,675 (0.04%)
* [[Jews]]{{snd}}2,529 (0.04%)
* [[Ulch people|Ulchi]]{{snd}}2,431 (0.03%)
* [[Yukaghir people|Yukaghir]]{{snd}}1,747 (0.03%)
* [[Itelmens]]{{snd}}1,486 (0.02%)
* [[Mari people|Mari]]{{snd}}1,230 (0.02%)
* Individuals who did not indicate nationality{{snd}}996,184 (12.49%)

==Presidential plenipotentiary envoys==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
!rowspan="2"|№
!rowspan="2"|Name (envoy)
!rowspan="2"|Photo
!colspan="3"|Term of office
!rowspan="2"|Appointed by
|-
!Start of term
!End of term
!Length of service
|-
|1
|[[Konstantin Pulikovsky]]
|[[File:Пуликовский Константин Борисович.JPG|70px]]
| 18 May 2000
| 14 November 2005
|{{age in years and days|2000|5|18|2005|11|14}} ({{age in days nts|2000|5|18|2005|11|14}} days)
!style="font-weight:normal" rowspan=3|[[Vladimir Putin]]
|-
| 2
|[[Kamil Iskhakov]]
|[[File:Исхаков Камиль Шамильевич.jpg|70px]]
| 14 November 2005
| 2 October 2007
|{{age in years and days|2005|11|14|2007|10|2}} ({{age in days nts|2005|11|14|2007|10|2}} days)
|-
|3
|[[Oleg Safonov]]
|[[File:Олег Сафронов 6 March 2008.jpg|70px]]
|30 November 2007
|30 April 2009
|{{age in years and days|2007|11|30|2009|4|30}} ({{age in days nts|2007|11|30|2009|4|30}} days)
|-
|4
|[[Viktor Ishayev]]
|[[File:Viktor Ishayev portrait (cropped).jpg|70px]]
| 30 April 2009
| 30 August 2013
|{{age in years and days|2009|4|30|2013|8|30}} ({{age in days nts|2009|4|30|2013|8|30}} days)
!style="font-weight:normal"|[[Dmitry Medvedev]]
|-
|5
|[[Yury Trutnev]]
|[[File:Yury Trutnev (2019-12-19).jpg|70px]]
|31 August 2013
|present
|{{age in years and days|2013|8|31}} ({{age in days nts|2013|8|31}} days)
!style="font-weight:normal"|[[Vladimir Putin]]
|-
|}

==See also==
* [[Far North (Russia)]]
* [[Far Eastern economic region]]
* [[Eastern Military District]]
* [[Far Eastern Republic]]
* [[Manchuria]] ([[Northeast China]])
* [[Russian Manchuria (Russia)|Russian Manchuria]]
* [[History of Primorye]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://frontiers.loc.gov/ Meeting of Frontiers: Siberia, Alaska, and the American West] (includes materials on the Russian Far East) {{in lang|en|ru}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100614055853/http://www.dalfo.ru/ Unofficial website of the Far Eastern Federal District] {{in lang|ru}}

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