Niuland province (Geographic Playing Card)

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Title:

Niuland province

Subject:

Regional Diversity

Creator:

Konstantin Matveevich Gribanov

Source:

Album of Geographical Playing Cards of Russia, arranged on 80 cards according to maritime basin (A wonderful and instructive child's game of patience)

Publisher:

Library of Congress; Russian National Library

Date:

1856

Rights:

Access provided by the Library of Congress strictly for noncommercial educational and research purposes.

Language:

Russian

Region:

Grand Duchy of Finland

Capital:

Gel'singfors

Area (sq. miles):

5,109

Population:

138,106

Population density:

27 people per square mile

Ethnicity of inhabitants:

Russians, Finns, Swedes

Economic activities:

factories, shipbuilding, fishing, hunting, crop farming

Trade:

Trade is significant in bread, wood and fish.

Cities:

Notable features:

Sveaborgskaia first-class fortress. Second-class fortress Svartgol'm [Svartkhol'm], with a port.

Climate:

healthful

Card #:

Collection:

Regional Diversity

Tags:

Baltic Sea basin, botanical garden, bountiful forest, climate: healthful, crop farming, factories, Finns, fishing, fortress, Grand Duchy of Finland, hunting & trapping, port, Russians, shipbuilding, Swedes, trade: active