ABSTRACT

St Petersburg (Sankt-Peterburg) is a seaport at the mouth of the River Neva, which drains into the Gulf of Finland, in the Baltic Sea. The territory, including a total of 42 islands in the Neva delta, occupies an area of 1,399 sq km (540 sqmiles). According to official estimates, at January 2015 the city’s population was 5,191,690, and the population density 3,708.4 per sq km. The entire population lived in urban areas. Of those city residents who stated their ethnicity at the 2010 census, 92.5% were Russian and 1.5% were Ukrainian. St Petersburg is in the time zone GMT+3.