The Far Eastern Federal District (Russian: Дальневосточный федеральный округ, IPA: [dəlʲnʲɪvɐˈstot͡ɕnɨj fʲɪdʲɪˈralʲnɨj ˈokrʊk], Latinized: Dal'nevostochnyy federal'nyy okrug) is the largest of the eight federal districts of Russia, but the least populated, with a population of around 8 million (73.6% urban) according to the 2021 Census. The federal district lies entirely within the easternmost part of Asia and is coextensive with the Russian Far East.

The Far Eastern Federal District was established on 13 May 2000 by President Vladimir Putin. It is currently governed by presidential envoy Yury Trutnev. In November 2018, Buryatia and Zabaykalsky Krai were added to the federal district. The seat of the Far Eastern Federal District was moved from Khabarovsk to Vladivostok in December 2018.

On 15 July 2022, the first high-speed highway was opened in the Far Eastern Federal District. It united three federal highways – Ussuri (Khabarovsk–Vladivostok), Amur (Chita–Khabarovsk) and Vostok (Khabarovsk–Nakhodka), and connect the regional capital with Komsomolsk-on-Amur, as well as sites of the territory of the advancing socio-economic development (SAD).

#	Flag	Coat of arms	Federal subject	Area in km	Population (2021 census)	GDP	Capital/Administrative center	Map of Administrative Division
1			Amur Oblast	361,900	766,912	₽531 billion	Blagoveshchensk
2			Republic of Buryatia	351,300	978,588	₽342 billion	Ulan-Ude
3			Jewish Autonomous Oblast	36,300	150,453	₽79 billion	Birobidzhan
4			Zabaykalsky Krai	431,900	1,004,125	₽487 billion	Chita
5			Kamchatka Krai	464,300	291,705	₽338 billion	Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
6			Magadan Oblast	462,500	136,085	₽315 billion	Magadan
7			Primorsky Krai	164,700	1,845,165	₽1,309 billion	Vladivostok
8			Sakha Republic	3,083,500	995,686	₽1,616 billion	Yakutsk
9			Sakhalin Oblast	87,100	466,609	₽1,234 billion	Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
10			Khabarovsk Krai	787,600	1,292,944	₽987 billion	Khabarovsk
11			Chukotka Autonomous Okrug	721,500	47,490	₽136 billion	Anadyr

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1959	6,543,859	—
1970	7,737,678	+18.2%
1979	8,946,829	+15.6%
1989	10,359,773	+15.8%
2002	8,829,449	−14.8%
2010	8,372,257	−5.2%
2021	7,975,762	−4.7%
Source: Census data

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, the centre of Ingushetia, is smaller than Anadyr.

Artyom is a large suburb of the Vladivostok metropolitan area.

Populations are given as of the 2021 census:

1. Khabarovsk: 617,441
2. Vladivostok: 603,519
3. Ulan-Ude: 437,565
4. Yakutsk: 355,443
5. Chita: 334,427
6. Blagoveshchensk: 241,437
7. Komsomolsk-on-Amur: 238,505
8. Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk: 181,587
9. Ussuriysk: 180,393
10. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky: 164,900
11. Nakhodka: 139,931
12. Artyom: 109,556
13. Magadan: 90,757

According to a 2012 survey 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) Orthodox churches, 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 atheist, and 9.5% follows other religions or did not give an answer to the question.

The ethnic composition, according to the 2021 census (after the integration of Buryatia and Zabaykalsky Krai in 2018) was:

• Total – 6,979,578 people
• Russians – 5,674,671 (81.30%)
• Yakuts – 472,116 (6.76%)
• Buryats – 371,677 (5.33%)
• Ukrainians – 47,560 (0.68%)
• Evenki – 33,760 (0.48%)
• Koreans – 29,855 (0.43%)
• Tatars – 24,605 (0.35%)
• Uzbeks – 23,477 (0.34%)
• Armenians – 20,185 (0.29%)
• Kyrgyz – 19,659 (0.28%)
• Evens (Lamuts) – 19,561 (0.28%)
• Tajiks – 17,812 (0.26%)
• Chukchi – 15,686 (0.22%)
• Azerbaijanis – 13,011 (0.19%)
• Nanai – 11,424 (0.16%)
• Chinese – 8,396 (0.12%)
• Belarusians – 7,944 (0.11%)
• Koryaks – 7,292 (0.10%)
• Kazakhs – 4,614 (0.07%)
• Bashkirs – 4,391 (0.06%)
• Nivkh – 3,758 (0.05%)
• Germans – 3,564 (0.05%)
• Chuvash – 2,906 (0.04%)
• Moldovans – 2,851 (0.04%)
• Mordva – 2,675 (0.04%)
• Jews – 2,529 (0.04%)
• Ulchi – 2,431 (0.03%)
• Yukaghir – 1,747 (0.03%)
• Itelmens – 1,486 (0.02%)
• Mari – 1,230 (0.02%)
• Individuals who did not indicate nationality – 996,184 (12.49%)

№	Name (envoy)	Photo	Term of office			Appointed by
			Start of term	End of term	Length of service
1	Konstantin Pulikovsky		18 May 2000	14 November 2005	5 years, 180 days (2,006 days)	Vladimir Putin
2	Kamil Iskhakov		14 November 2005	2 October 2007	1 year, 322 days (687 days)
3	Oleg Safonov		30 November 2007	30 April 2009	1 year, 151 days (517 days)
4	Viktor Ishayev		30 April 2009	30 August 2013	4 years, 122 days (1,583 days)	Dmitry Medvedev
5	Yury Trutnev		31 August 2013	present	11 years, 115 days (4,133 days)	Vladimir Putin

• Far North (Russia)
• Far Eastern economic region
• Eastern Military District
• Far Eastern Republic
• Manchuria (Northeast China)
• Russian Manchuria

• Meeting of Frontiers: Siberia, Alaska, and the American West (includes materials on the Russian Far East) (in English and Russian)
• Unofficial website of the Far Eastern Federal District (in Russian)

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