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Saint Petersburg
Total population
5,597,763
Air quality index
Demographic figures from Rosstat. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
Overview
Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd (Петроград) and later Leningrad (Ленинград), is the second-largest city in Russia, after Moscow, the nation's capital. Situated on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea, its area of 1,439 square kilometers (556 sq mi) renders it the smallest administrative division of Russia by area. The city had a population of 5,601,911 residents as of 2021, with more than 6.4 million people living in the metropolitan area. Saint Petersburg is the fourth-most populous city in Europe, the most populous city on the Baltic Sea, and the world's northernmost city of more than 1 million residents. As the former capital of the Russian Empire, and a historically strategic Baltic port, it is governed as a federal city.
Read more on WikipediaHistory & geography
Geography
Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.
Climate
Air quality
Current readings from Open-Meteo Air Quality API (Copernicus CAMS European reanalysis).
Walkability
Amenities nearby
Wildlife & biodiversity
Most-observed species
- Hooded CrowCorvus cornix Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves13,565
- Great TitParus major Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves11,059
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves10,036
- Rock PigeonColumba livia J.F.Gmelin, 1789 · Aves9,494
- House SparrowPasser domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves8,191
- Eurasian Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves7,300
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves6,752
- Eurasian BlackbirdTurdus merula Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves6,732
Citizen-science & research observations from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).
Earthquake history
Events from the USGS Earthquake Catalog (global) (FDSN Event Web Service).
Photos
Sights & places nearby
Notable people from here
People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.
Nearby places in Saint Petersburg
- Shushary9.3 mi away · pop. 95,155
- Pargolovo10.1 mi away · pop. 81,033
- Strelna10.7 mi away · pop. 14,696
- Levashovo12 mi away · pop. 5,559
- Metallostroy12.7 mi away · pop. 30,895
- Pesochny13.7 mi away · pop. 9,079
- Petergof14.5 mi away · pop. 84,930
- Pontonny15.3 mi away · pop. 9,273
- Pushkin15.4 mi away · pop. 112,978
- Kolpino16.3 mi away · pop. 149,766
- Krasnoye Selo16.3 mi away · pop. 60,029
- Sestroretsk16.5 mi away · pop. 43,060
Geography & sun
Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.
Nearby airports
Public attention
Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.
Books about Saint Petersburg
Search results from Open Library.
Recent natural events nearby
Ground air-quality sensors
Recently spotted species
Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).
Events
Gallery
Geotagged photos within ~6 miles of Saint Petersburg, from Wikimedia Commons contributors.
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Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Wikimedia Commons
- • Wikidata
- • Open-Meteo Air Quality (CAMS)
- • USGS Earthquake Catalog (global feed)
- • GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility)
- • iNaturalist
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • Open Library