The Udmurt Republic (Udmurtia for short) is one of the administrative entities of the Russian Federation. It enters the Volga Federal region and the Ural economic region. The population is over 1.5 mln. people. The area is 42 thousand square km, which is exactly same as Switzerland.
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The Udmurt region is a home for over 120 ethnicities. The majority are the Russians (60%), second largest group are the Udmurt people (29%), and the Tatars make up 7% of the population. The Udmurts – the indigenous people of Udmurtia - belong to the Finno-Ugric group. Their next-of-kin ethnic groups in Europe are the Hungarians and the Finns. The Udmurt people speak Udmurt language, which is one of the official languages in the Republic along with Russian.
The city of Izhevsk is the cultural, industrial, and educational center of Udmurtia. It is one of the 20 largest cities in Russia with population of almost 700,000 people. It was founded in 1760 as a steelworks settlement.
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