Nizhegorod province (Geographic Playing Card)
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Title:
Nizhegorod 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:
Central Industrial region
Capital:
Nizhnii Novgorod
Area (sq. miles):
18,670
Population:
1,178,200
Population density:
63.1 people per square mile
Ethnicity of inhabitants:
Russians, Tatars, Cheremis, Mordvinians, Chuvash
Economic activities:
factories, markets, shipbuilding, crop farming, fishing, tobacco farming, beekeeping
Trade:
Internal and external trade are rather significant.
Cities:
11
Notable features:
In the province there are five very important piers. Nizhnyi Novgorod was founded by Georgii II Vsevolodovich in 1222.
Climate:
rather cold
Card #:
48