Place:Yamalo-Nenets, Tyumen, Uralsky, Russia

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NameYamalo-Nenets
Alt namesJamalo-neneckiy Nacional'nyj Okrugsource: Rand McNally Atlas (1986) I-111
Yamal Nenets A. Okrugsource: Russia, National Geographic (1993) map supplement
Yamalo-Nenets autonomous okrugsource: Encyclopædia Britannica (1988) XII, 813
Yamalo-Nenets National Okrugsource: Encyclopædia Britannica (1988) XII, 813
Yamalo-Nenetskiy Avtonomnyy Okrugsource: Times Atlas of the World (1994) plate 47
Yamato-Nenets AOsource: Times Atlas of World History (1993) p 360
TypeAutonomous district
Coordinates66.5°N 64.0°E
Located inTyumen, Uralsky, Russia     (1930 - )
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Aksarka
Gyda
Krasnoselkup
Labytnangi
Muzhi
Nadym
Napalkovo
Novyy Port
Nyda
Salekhard ( 1595 - )
Shuryshkary
Tambey
Tarko-Sale
Tazovskiy
Tol'ka
Ust' Kara
Yaptiksale
Yar Sale
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names


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The Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (YaNAO; , ;) is a federal subject of Russia (an autonomous okrug of Tyumen Oblast). Its administrative center is the town of Salekhard, and its largest city is Noyabrsk. The 2010 Russian Census recorded its population as 522,904.[1] The Autonomous Okrug borders Krasnoyarsk Krai to the east, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug to the south, Nenets Autonomous Okrug and Komi Republic to the west.

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The West Siberian petroleum basin is the largest hydrocarbon (petroleum and natural gas) basin in the world covering an area of about 2.2 million km2, and is also the largest oil and gas producing region in Russia.

The Nenets people are an indigenous tribe who have long survived in this region. Their prehistoric life involved subsistence hunting and gathering, including the taking of polar bears; the practice of hunting polar bears (Ursus maritimus) continues up to the present time.

Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug is traversed by the northeasterly line of equal latitude and longitude, that is, at the point 70°N and 70°E, with equal degrees. The Polar Urals rise in the western part and the highest point of the okrug, as well as of the whole Ural mountain system, is Mount Payer.

The area consists of arctic tundra and taiga, with three large peninsulas - the Yamal Peninsula, Taz Peninsula and the Gyda Peninsula (itself containing the Yavay Peninsula and Mamonta Peninsula). There are nearly 300,000 lakes in the okrug, some of the main ones being Pyakuto, Chyortovo, Neito, Yambuto, Yarroto and Nembuto.

The Ob River flows through Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug to the Kara Sea via the Gulf of Ob, which dominates the geography of the Okrug (together with its two sub-bays, the Taz Estuary and Khalmyer Bay.

A number of islands are off the okrug's coast - from west to east, the main ones are Torasovey Island, Bolotnyy Island, Litke Island, Sharapovy Koshki Islands, Bely Island, Shokalsky Island, Petsovyye Islands, Proklyatyye Islands, Oleny Island, and Vilkitsky Island.

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