The international geography . lway follows the Amurvalley to Nerchinsk, the chief trading centre of a great mining regionwhere silver-lead, mercury, copper and iron are worked ; and to Chita the great Siberian railway runs south-eastward through Man-churia to Kharbin, a new Russian city, and thence one branch goes toVladivostok, and another to Port Arthur and Peking. Vladivostok is situated on the only sea freely open for almost all theyear, which bathes the shores of the Russian Empire. With the increaseof agricultural population and the stimulus of its approaching position asa
The international geography . lway follows the Amurvalley to Nerchinsk, the chief trading centre of a great mining regionwhere silver-lead, mercury, copper and iron are worked ; and to Chita the great Siberian railway runs south-eastward through Man-churia to Kharbin, a new Russian city, and thence one branch goes toVladivostok, and another to Port Arthur and Peking. Vladivostok is situated on the only sea freely open for almost all theyear, which bathes the shores of the Russian Empire. With the increaseof agricultural population and the stimulus of its approaching position asa railway terminus, Vladivostok promised to become the Constantinople ofthe East as its founders hoped when they established it in i860, the namethey gave meaning Rule the East. Though the population of the townhas grown to nearly 30,000 its future prospects were compromised by therise of the leased harbours of Port Arthur and Dalni, but the loss of thesein 1905 as a result of the war with Japan restores its earlier FlQ. 222.—Railways of European Russm. 42o The International Geography STATISTICS OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. Area Great Political Divisions. in sq. miles. European Russia 1,902,202 Poland 49,159 Finland Caucasia 180,843 Siberia Steppes 908,073 Turkestan .Total. 471,3718,489,399 Populationin ,215,4159,455,9432,527,8019,248,6955,727,0905,451,385. 4270,299 130,896,628 Largest administrative division, YakutskMost populous „ „ Area in sq. ,533,40019,690 Density of Popula-tion per sq. Population. 261,531 3,576,125 POPULATION OF CHIEF TOWNS IN 1897. St. Petersburg and suburbs .. iMoscow and suburbs .. .. iWarsaw Odessa Lodz Riga Kiyev Kharkov .. Tiflis Vilna Tashkent .. Saratov Kazan Yekaterinoslav .. Rostov-on-the-Don Astrakhan Baku Tula Kishinev .. Nizhnii-Novgorod Nikolayev Samara Minsk Voronezh .. Kokan Kovno Dvinsk (Dunaburg) ,267,023,035,664638,,209256,197247,432174,846160,6451
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