One of the subjects of the Russian Federation, which is part of the Siberian Federal District, is the Kemerovo region. The area of the region is 95 thousand km2, according to this indicator it ranks 34th, and in terms of population - 17th. It is home to 2.7 million people. The list of cities in the Kemerovo region, in addition to the regional center, includes 19 administrative-territorial units. The main population is urban, its share in 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 in terms of area, located in the south of the region on the banks of the rivers Tom and Iskitimka. In the last century, the coal industry was actively developing here, today chemical, food and light industries have been 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 forests.
- Prokopyevsk.
- Tashtagol.
- K altan.
- Berezovsky.
- Fireboxes.
- Polysaevo.
- Guryevsk.
- Leninsk-Kuznetsky.
- Toes.
- Mezhdurechensk.
Cities of the Kemerovo region: list by population
Cities are completely different in terms of population, density, and 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 K altan. But most often the cities of the Kemerovo region or another region are compared in terms of numbers.
The most populous, of course, is the administrative center - Kemerovo. Next comes Novokuznetsk, where almost the same number lives, 550 thousand people, and the next city is the young Mezhdurechensk, which arose in 1946. Less than 100 thousand people live here, or rather, 98 thousand in 2016.
Cities and towns
The largest cities of the Kemerovo region from the list are the same as those 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 arethe cities of Guryevsk and Tashtagol, where 28 thousand people live, as well as the city of K altan with a population of 21 thousand, and the smallest - Salair, where only 7 thousand people live, despite the fact that the settlement was founded in 1626.
