Rostov Region

Territory - 100.8 thousand sq km.

Population - 4367.3 thousand people (for 01.01.99), including: urban - 67.6 %; rural - 32.4 %.

Administrative division - 43 regions, 23 cities, including 16 of regional subordination, 25 semiurban settlements and 444 rural administrative units.

Regional centre - Rostov-on-Don (1008.5 thousand inhabitants).

Largest cities (number of inhabitants for 01.01.98, thousand people): Taganrog (288.6), Shakhty (255.1), Novocherkassk (200.4), Volgodonsk (188.7), Novoshakhtinsk (105.7).