ABSTRACT
St Petersburg (Sankt-Peterburg) is a seaport at the mouth of the River Neva, which drains into the easternmost part of the Gulf of Finland (part of the Baltic Sea). St Petersburg is in the North-Western Federal Okrug and the North-Western Economic Area. The territory, including a total of 42 islands in the Neva delta, occupies an area of 1,399 sq km (540 sq miles) and, in addition to St Petersburg itself, includes several other urban settlements and countryside. According to official estimates, at January 2013 the city’s population was 5,028,000, and the population density 3,591.4 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+4.
