Russian Special Economic Zones and Prosperity Analysis
1. General information
b) Basic facts
Area
(% of Russia's total)
Population
(% of Russia's total)
Main cities
(thousand people)
Borders with
Main industries
Natural resources
Leningrad region
Saint Petersburg
1 439 km²
(0.008 %)
5 383 890
(3.7%)
Machine building, metallurgy, metal-processing, energy,
food, chemical and petrochemical, light industry,
construction
Sand and gravel deposits, peat, clay, pebble, sandstones,
loam
Leningrad region
84 500 km²
(0.5%)
1 847 867
(1.3%)
Gatchina (93.7), Vyborg (76.4), Sosnovy Bor (68.3)
Finland, Estonia, St. Petersburg,
the Novgorod, Pskov, Vologda regions, Republic of Karelia
Engineering, chemicals, forestry, agriculture, wood
working, pulp and paper, food, fuel,
non-ferrous metallurgy and power
Forest, bauxite, slate, limestone, phosphorite, clay,
granite, gravel
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St. Petersburg is second densest populated Federal subject after Moscow out of 85* Federal subjects
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