ABSTRACT
Pskov Oblast is situated on the Eastern European Plain. It has borders with Belarus to the south and Latvia and Estonia to the west, with the Oblasts of Smolensk in the southeast, Tver and Novgorod in the east and Leningrad in the north-east. Around two-fifths of the Oblast’s territory is forested. On its border with Estonia lie the Pskov (Pihkva) and Chudskoye (Peipsi) lakes. Pskov Oblast covers an area of 55,399 sq km (21,390 sq miles). At January 2023 its population was an estimated 587,786 and the population density 10.6 per sq km. Some 70.9% of the population was urban in 2023. The administrative centre is Pskov, with an estimated 189,315 inhabitants at January 2023. Of residents who stated their ethnicity at the 2021 census, 95.8% were Russian. Pskov Oblast is in the time zone UTC+3.
