Saint Petersburg
Federal city and former capital of Russia
Also known as Petersburg · Sankt-Peterburg · St Petersburg · St.Petersburg
- Country
- Russia(since 1991)
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- , Soviet Union(1922–1991)
- , Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic(1917–1922)
- +3 more
- Russia(since 1991)
- Located in
- Russia(since 1991)
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- , Russian Empire(1721–1917)
- , Russian Republic(1917–1917)
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- Russia(since 1991)
- Population
- 5,652,922(January 1, 2025)
- , 5,597,763(2024)
- , 5,601,911(2021)
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Sources- 1.Stated in 2021 Russian census“Оценка численности постоянного населения по субъектам Российской Федерации”rosstat.gov.ru/storage/mediabank/tab-5_VPN-2020.xlsxRetrieved 2022-09-01
- 2.Stated in 2021 Russian census“Russia: Federal Districts and Major Cities - Population Statistics, Maps, Charts, Weather and Web Information”citypopulation.de/en/russia/cities/Retrieved 2022-09-27
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- Area
- 1,439 km²
- Elevation
- 3 m
- Head of government
- Alexander Beglov(since 2018)
- , Anatoly Sobchak(1991–1996)
- , Vladimir Anatolyevich Yakovlev(1996–2003)
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- Founded
- May 16, 1703
- Postal code
- 190000–199406
Overview
Over time
Dated values recorded in Wikidata, each with its own source
All data
714 statements · 35% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Named after
- Saint Peter(since 1991) excluding: Soviet Union
- Vladimir Lenin(1924–1991)
- Saint Peter(1703–1924) named by: Peter the Great
- Twinned administrative body
- Gdańsk(since 1997) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Aqaba(since 2004) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Alexandria(since 2005) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Almaty(since 1996) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Antwerp(since 1958) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Baku(since 1998) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Bangkok(since 1997) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Barcelona(since 1984) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
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- Bethlehem(since 2003) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Havana(since 2000) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Hamburg(since 1957) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Graz(since 2001) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Daugavpils(since 2004) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Dresden(since 1961) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Dushanbe(since 1991) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Yerevan(since 1997) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Zagreb(since 1968) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Isfahan(since 1999) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Quebec City(since 2002) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Cape Town(since 2001) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Colombo(since 1997) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Kotka(since 1997) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Košice(since 1995) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Lyon(since 1993) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Los Angeles(since 1990) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Manchester(since 1962) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Maribor(since 2001) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Mikkeli(since 1996) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Minsk(since 2000) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Montevideo(since 1998) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Mumbai(since 1967) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Mykolaiv(since 2003) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Aarhus(since 1989) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Osaka(since 1979) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Osh(since 2004) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Piraeus(since 1965) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Plovdiv(since 1980) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Busan(since 2008) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Rio de Janeiro(since 1987) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Riga(since 1997) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Rotterdam(since 1966) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- St. Petersburg(since 2003) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Santiago de Cuba(since 1974) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Sevastopol(since 2000) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Istanbul(since 1990) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Stockholm Municipality(since 1992) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Tampere(since 1993) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Tbilisi(since 1999) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Daegu(since 1997) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Haifa(since 2008) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Khartoum(since 2002) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Kharkiv(since 2003) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Helsinki(since 1993) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Ho Chi Minh City(since 2005) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Chengdu(since 1998) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Shanghai(since 1988) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Edinburgh(since 1995) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Venice(since 2006) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Haiphong(since 2006) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Constanța(since 2007) reason for preferred rank: currently valid value
- Local dialing code
- 812 calling code: +7
- Vehicle registration plate code
- 78
- 98(since 2004)
- 178(since 2010)
- 198(since 2018)
- 778(since 2025)
- Contains the administrative territorial entity
- Kronstadt
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- Municipal Okrug 15
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- Municipal Okrug #21
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- Municipal Okrug #54
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- Municipal Okrug #65
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- Municipal Okrug #7
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- Avtovo
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- Admiralteysky Municipal Okrug
1
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- Akademitsheskoye Municipal Okrug
1
- Alexandrovskaya
1
- Aptekarsky Ostrov Municipal Okrug
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- Beloostrov
1
- Bolshaya Okhta Municipal Okrug
1
- Vasilyevsky Municipal Okrug
1
- Vvedensky Municipal Okrug
1
- Gavan Municipal Okrug
1
- Gagarinskoe
1
- Gorelovo
1
- Grazhdanka
1
- Dachnoye Municipal Okrug
1
- Yekateringofsky Municipal Okrug
1
- Zvyozdnoe
1
- Zelenogorsk
1
- Ivanovsky
1
- Izmaylovskoye Municipal Okrug
1
- Knyazhevo
1
- Kolomna Municipal Okrug
1
- Kolomyagi
1
- Kolpino
1
- Komarovo
1
- Komendantsky Aerodrom
1
- Konstantinovskoe
1
- Krasnenkaya Rechka Municipal Okrug
1
- Krasnoye Selo
1
- Kronverkskoye Municipal Okrug
1
- Lakhta-Olgino Municipal Okrug
1
- Levashovo
1
- Lisy Nos
1
- Lomonosov
1
- Malaya Okhta
1
- Metallostroy
1
- Molodyozhnoe
1
- Morskie Vorota
1
- Morskoy
1
- Moskovskaya Zastava Municipal Okrug
1
- Narvsky Municipal Okrug
1
- Narodny
1
- Nevskaya Zastava
1
- Nevsky
1
- Novoizmailovskoe
1
- Obukhovsky
1
- Ozero Dolgoe
1
- Okkervil
1
- Petrovsky
1
- Ostrov Dekabristov
1
- Pavlovsk
1
- Pargolovo
1
- Sergievskoe
1
- Pesochny
1
- Peterhof
1
- Kronstadt
- Demonym
- петербуржцы
- питерские
- St Petersburger
- Sankt-Peterburgano
- питерцы
- Pétersbourgeois applies to part: masculine singular
- Pétersbourgeoise applies to part: feminine singular
- pietroburghesi applies to part: masculine plural
- Native label
- Санкт-Петербург
- Sankt Petersburg reason for deprecated rank: does not exactly match
- Sankt Pieter Burch nature of statement: interim
- Nickname
- Питер statement is subject of: Piter
- Piter
- Window to Europe
- Window to the West
- City of White Nights
- Northern Palmyra
- Capital of
- Leningrad Oblast(since 1927)
- Northwestern Federal District(since 2000)
- Ingermanland Governorate(1703–1710)
- Saint Petersburg Governorate(1710–1927)
- Tsardom of Russia(1712–1721)
- Sankt Petersburg Province(1719–1744)
- Russian Empire(1721–1728)
- Saint Peterburg County(1727–1927)
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- Russian Empire(1730–1917)
- Russian Republic(1917–1917)
- Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic(1917–1918)
- Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic(1917–1918)
- Leningradsky Prigorodny rayon(1930–1936)
- Russian Democratic Federative Republic(1918–1918)
- Geoshape
- Data:Russia/Saint Petersburg.map
- Short name
- SPb
- SPb
- СПб(since 1991)
- СПб.(since 1991)
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- IPA transcription
- [sankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk] language: Russian
- Entry in abbreviations table
- СПб used by: GOST Р 7.0.12—2011
- Hashtag
- SaintPetersburg
- Inventory number
- 540bis
- Coordinates of southernmost point
- 59.6338°N, 30.2542°E
- Coordinates of northernmost point
- 60.2445°N, 29.7027°E
- Coordinates of easternmost point
- 59.7549°N, 30.7589°E
- Coordinates of westernmost point
- 60.1908°N, 29.4262°E
- Coordinates of geographic center
- 59.9673°N, 30.1077°E
- Highest point
- Orekhovaya Mountain elevation: 175.9 m
- Official name
- Санкт-Петербург(since 1991)
- Ленинград(1924–1991) statement is subject of: Leningrad · named after: Vladimir Lenin · short name: Л.
- Петроград(1914–1924) statement is subject of: Petrograd
- Санкт-Петербург(1703–1914)
- Sankt Petersburg(1703–1914)
- Szentpétervár(1703–1914)
- Sankt Petersburg(1703–1914)
- Petrograd(1914–1924)
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- Petrográd(1914–1924)
- Петраград(1914–1924)
- Petrograd(1914–1924)
- Петраград(1914–1924)
- Leningrad(1924–1991)
- Leningrád(1924–1991)
- Ленінград(1924–1991)
- Leningrad(1924–1991)
- Ленінград(1924–1991)
- Ленінград(1924–1991)
- Sankt Petersburg(since 1991)
- Szentpétervár(since 1991)
- Sankt Petersburg(since 1991)
- Leningrado(1924–1991)
- Լենինգրադ(1924–1991)
- Պետրոգրադ(1914–1924)
- Санкт-Петербург(1703–1914)
- Петроград(1914–1924)
- Санкт-Петербург(since 1991)
- Լենինկրատ(1924–1991)
- Leninqrad(1924–1991)
- Petroqrad(1914–1924)
- Петроград(1914–1924)
- Ленинград(1924–1991)
- Санкт Петербург(since 1991)
- Санкт Петербург(until 1914)
- Leningrad(1924–1991)
- Petersburg(since 1991)
- Leningrad(1924–1991)
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On other databases
139 identifiers linking Saint Petersburg across the web's reference databases
- AllTrails trail IDrussia/leningrad
- Alvin IDalvin-place:5237
- Arab Encyclopedia concept ID159930
- ArchINFORM location ID7987
- Armeniapedia ID4814
- Article ID in the Lithuanian Universal Encyclopedia Onlinesankt-peterburgas
- BabelNet ID00050670n
- Bashenc.online ID80113
- BBC News topic IDckr6d4pkq7dt
- BBC Things IDc70fbc0c-60bb-42a5-99cd-e65ff5823b9e
- BHCL UUIDd22a2a4b-1170-4d9e-b2c4-8973873eded6
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID15289272f
- Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online IDsankt-petersburg
- CANTIC ID981058611493406706
- Catholic Encyclopedia ID13374b
- CERL Thesaurus IDcnl00032788
- Comic Vine ID4020-57348
- Curlie IDRegional/Europe/Russia/Administrative_Regions/Saint_Petersburg/
- De Agostini IDPietrogrado
- Early Modern Letters Online location ID724a8a54-5982-49cd-a4f5-8f149017f44d
- Edition humboldt digital IDH0008236
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDplace/St-Petersburg-Russia
- Encyclopædia Universalis IDsaint-petersbourg-leningrad
- Encyclopedia of China (Second Edition) ID229536
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)2IGogu
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)579474
- Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine IDSankt_Peterburh_mst
- Enzyklopädie des europäischen Ostens IDd535
- Eska.pl topic IDtg-TxH9-7aoe-bTsF
- Facebook location ID108131085886116
- FactGrid item IDQ10474
- Fandom article IDrussia:Saint_Petersburg
- FAST ID1212867
- FIPS 10-4 (countries and regions)RS66
- Forbes Russia profile ID238875-sankt-peterburg
- France 24 topic ID (French)saint-pétersbourg
- Freebase ID/m/06pr6
- GeoNames ID498817
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID7010273
- Giant Bomb Wiki IDLocations/St_Petersburg
- GitHub topicsaint-petersburg
- GND ID4267026-3
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana IDsant-petersburg
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)0240216
- Great Encyclopedia of Cyril and Methodius entry IDСанкт-Петербург
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDSt._Petersburg
- Great Russian Encyclopedia portal IDsankt-peterburg-168d03
- Grove Art Online IDT075156
- Gynopedia IDSaint Petersburg
- Harper's tagstpetersburg-russia
- HASCRU.SP
- Hikr waypoint ID95319
- Hrvatska enciklopedija ID54451
- IdRef ID031917593
- Image Archive, Herder InstituteQ656
- INaturalist place ID11798
- Interlingual Index IDi84008
- ISO 3166-2 codeRU-SPE
- Izvestia topic IDsankt-peterburg
- J9U entity ID987007554968705171
- Japan Search name IDサンクトペテルブルク
- Jewish Encyclopedia ID13006
- Jewish Encyclopedia ID (Russian)12415
- Joconde location IDT84-4327
- KLADR ID7800000000000
- Klexikon article IDSankt_Petersburg
- KSW place ID78863
- Kulturenvanteri taxonomy ID3411
- Kyiv Independent topic IDst-petersburg
- Larousse IDville/Saint-Pétersbourg/142615
- Le Figaro tag IDSaint-Pétersbourg
- LEMAC IDLEMAC201230188
- Lex IDSankt_Petersborg
- Library of Congress Authorities IDn81039599
- Mindat locality ID2769
- Museum-digital place ID270
- MusicBrainz area ID808e1ef8-5390-4300-a615-c4df977cc349
- National Historical Museums of Sweden IDgeo/D4C2776F-6945-41B1-80A7-8BBC5081096A
- National Library of Ireland IDvtls001148665
- National Library of Israel ID (old)000971444
- National Library of Spain SpMaBN IDXX452700
- National Library of Wales Authority IDsaint-petersburg-russia
- NDL Authority ID00628550
- NE.se IDsankt-petersburg
- NL CR AUT IDge128542
- NLAI ID238993
- Observation.org location ID356958
- OKATO ID40000000000
- OKTMO ID40000000
- OmegaWiki Defined Meaning1216393