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Moscow

Moscow
Москва
Clockwise frae tap richt: Spasskaya Touer o the Moscow Kremlin; MIBC; Reid Squerr, Saunt Basil's Cathedral; Bolshoi Theatre; Moscow State Varsity; an Cathedral o Christ the Saviour.
Banner o Moscow
Banner
Coat of airms o Moscow
Coat airms
Anthem: Ma Moscow
Coordinates: 55°45′N 37°37′E / 55.750°N 37.617°E / 55.750; 37.617Coordinates: 55°45′N 37°37′E / 55.750°N 37.617°E / 55.750; 37.617
KintraRoushie
Federal destrictCentral[1]
Economic regionCentral[2]
EstablishedAfore 1147[3]
Govrenment
 • BodiCeety Duma[4]
 • Mayor[5]Sergey Sobyanin[5]
Area
 • Total1091 km2 (421 sq mi)
Area rank83rd
Population
 (2010 Census)[7]
 • Total11,514,330
 • Estimate 
(2018)[8]
12,506,468 (+8.6%)
 • Rank1st
 • Density11,000/km2 (27,000/sq mi)
 • Urban
100%
 • Rural
0%
Time zoneUTC+3 (Moscow Time Edit this on Wikidata[9])
ISO 3166 codeRU-MOW
License plates77, 99, 97, 177, 199, 197
OKTMO ID45000000
Offeecial leidsRoushie[10]
Websitehttp://www.mos.ru

Moscow is the caipital, the maist populous city, an the maist populous federal subject o Roushie. The city is a major poleetical, economic, cultural, releegious, financial, educational, an transportation centre o Roushie an the warld, a global city. Moscow is the maist populous city on the continent o Europe an the seivent lairgest ceety proper in the warld, a megaceety. The population o Moscow (as o 1 Januar 2010) is 10,563,038.

Moscow is situatit on the Moskva River in the Central Federal Destrict o European Roushie. In the course o its history the city haes served as the caipital o a progression o states, frae the medieval Grand Duchy o Moscow an the subsequent Tsardom o Roushie tae the Soviet Union. Moscow is the site o the Moscow Kremlin, an auncient fortress that is the day the residence o the Roushie Preses an o the executive branch o the Govrenment o Roushie. The Kremlin is ane o several Warld Heritage Sites in the city. Baith chambers o the Roushie parliament (the State Duma an the Federation Cooncil) sit in Moscow anaa.

The ceety is served bi an extensive transit netwirk, that includes fower internaitional airports, nine railwey terminals, an the Moscow Metro, seicont anerlie tae Tokyo in terms o ridership an recognised as ane o the ceety's laundmerks due tae the rich an varied airchitecture o its 182 stations.

Ower time, Moscow haes acquired a nummer o epithets, maist referrin tae its size an preeminent status athin the naition: The Third Rome (Третий Рим), Whitestane (Белокаменная), The First Throne (Первопрестольная), The Fowerty Fowerties (Сорок Сороков).

The demonym for a Moscow resident is Moskvitch.

  1. Президент Российской Федерации. Указ №849 от 13 мая 2000 г. «О полномочном представителе Президента Российской Федерации в федеральном округе». Вступил в силу 13 мая 2000 г. Опубликован: "Собрание законодательства РФ", No. 20, ст. 2112, 15 мая 2000 г. (President of the Russian Federation. Decree #849 of May 13, 2000 On the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in a Federal District. Effective as of May 13, 2000.).
  2. Госстандарт Российской Федерации. №ОК 024-95 27 декабря 1995 г. «Общероссийский классификатор экономических регионов. 2. Экономические районы», в ред. Изменения №5/2001 ОКЭР. (Gosstandart of the Russian Federation. #OK 024-95 December 27, 1995 Russian Classification of Economic Regions. 2. Economic Regions, as amended by the Amendment #5/2001 OKER. ).
  3. Comins-Richmond, Walter. "The History of Moscow". Occidental College. Archived frae the original on 17 Mey 2006. Retrieved 3 Julie 2006.
  4. "The Moscow Statute". Moscow City Duma. Moscow City Government. 28 Juin 1995. Archived frae the original on 23 August 2011. Retrieved 29 September 2010. The supreme and exclusive legislative (representative) body of the state power in Moscow is the Moscow City Duma.
  5. a b "The Moscow City Mayor". Government of Moscow. Archived frae the original on 23 August 2011. Retrieved 18 Mairch 2010.
  6. Федеральная служба государственной статистики (Federal State Statistics Service) (21 Mey 2004). "Территория, число районов, населённых пунктов и сельских администраций по субъектам Российской Федерации (Territory, Number of Districts, Inhabited Localities, and Rural Administration by Federal Subjects of the Russian Federation)". Всероссийская перепись населения 2002 года (All-Russia Population Census of 2002) (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved 1 November 2011.CS1 maint: unrecognised leid (link)
  7. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named 2002Census
  8. "26. Численность постоянного населения Российской Федерации по муниципальным образованиям на 1 января 2018 года". Roushie Federal State Stateestics Service. Retrieved 23 Januar 2019.
  9. "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). 3 Juin 2011. Retrieved 19 Januar 2019.CS1 maint: unrecognised leid (link)
  10. Offeecial ootthrou the Roushie Federation accordin tae Airticle 68.1 o the Constitution o Roushie.

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