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Astrakhan Oblast (Астраха́нская о́бласть) is a regional subdivision of Russia. Its administrative center is the city of Astrakhan.

Area 44,100 km², population 974,000 ( 1985).

1 Administrative Division

Astrakhan Oblast consists of the following districts ( Russian: районы):

Republics	Adygeya \| Altai \| Bashkortostan \| Buryatia \| Chechnya \| Chuvashia \| Dagestan \| Ingushetia \| Kabardino-Balkaria \| Karelia \| Khakassia \| Komi \| Kalmykia \| Karachay-Cherkessia \| Mari El \| Mordovia \| North Ossetia-Alania \| Sakha \| Tatarstan \| Tuva \| Udmurtia
Krais	Altai \| Khabarovsk \| Krasnodar \| Krasnoyarsk \| Primorsky \| Stavropol
Oblasts	Amur \| Arkhangelsk \| Astrakhan \| Belgorod \| Bryansk \| Chelyabinsk \| Chita \| Irkutsk \| Ivanovo \| Kaliningrad \| Kaluga \| Kamchatka \| Kemerovo \| Kirov \| Kostroma \| Kurgan \| Kursk \| Leningrad \| Lipetsk \| Magadan \| Moscow \| Murmansk \| Nizhny Novgorod \| Novgorod \| Novosibirsk \| Omsk \| Orenburg \| Oryol \| Penza \| Perm \| Pskov \| Rostov \| Ryazan \| Sakhalin \| Samara \| Saratov \| Smolensk \| Sverdlovsk \| Tambov \| Tomsk \| Tver \| Tula \| Tyumen \| Ulyanovsk \| Vladimir \| Volgograd \| Vologda \| Voronezh \| Yaroslavl
Federal cities	Moscow \| St. Petersburg
Autonomous Oblasts	Jewish
Autonomous Districts	Aga Buryatia \| Chukotka \| Evenkia \| Khantia-Mansia \| Koryakia \| Nenetsia \| Permyakia \| Taymyria \| Ust-Orda Buryatia \| Yamalia

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