Chechnya

Territory - over 16 thousand sq km.

Population - 780.4 thousand people (for 01.01.99).

Administrative division - 12 regions, 6 cities (5 of republican and 1 of district subordination), 4 semiurban settlements, 165 rural administrative units. Capital - Grozny (182.7 thousand people in 1995, about 200 thousand - by the beginning of 1999).

Major cities (number of inhabitants in 1995, thousand people): Urus-Martan (35.6), Gudermes (30.8), Shali (24.0), Argun (23.0).