Republics of the Soviet Union (New Union)

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The republics and union cities of the USSR.

The subjects of the Soviet Union (Russian: субъекты СССР, sub"yekty SSSR), colloquially known as union subjects (субъекты союза, sub"yekty soyuza, lit. "subjects of the union") are the top-level constituent entities within the Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics. The Soviet Union currently comprises of 38 union subjects, which includes 34 union republics (союзные республики, soyuznyye ryespubliki) and four union cities (города союзного значения, goroda soyuznogo znachyeniya; lit. "cities of union significance").

Some republics of the USSR contain within them autonomous republics. The union subjects and autonomous republics are subdivided into oblasts and rayons (which can vary).

Republics

Flag	Republic	ISO	Capital	Area (km²)	Population
	Abkhazia	AB	Sukhumi	8,665	1,102,628
	Alania	AN	Karachayevsk	15,054	453,659
	Artsakh	AR	Stepanakert	5,018	710,845
	Azerbaijan	AZ	Baku	81,582	10,218,159
	Bashkortostan	BA	Ufa	142,947	5,135,627
	Belarus	BY	Minsk	207,595	12,182,167
	Buryatia	BU	Ulan-Ude	408,650	2,147,426
	Chuvashia	CU	Cheboksary	18,300	2,004,099
	Circassia	AD	Maykop	25,014	3,158,857
	Cossackia	KA	Novocherkassk	236,744	13,663,825
	Crimea	KM	Simferopol	26,081	4,860,990
	Dagestan	DA	Makhachkala	50,270	3,785,416
	Gagauzia	GA	Comrat	2,506	580,721
	Kalmykia	KL	Elista	74,731	1,000,026
	Karakalpakstan	QR	Nukus	164,900	2,063,800
	Karelia	KR	Olonets	193,247	2,597,154
	Kazakhstan	KZ	Alma-Ata	2,718,538	23,050,250
	Komi	KO	Syktyvkar	449,544	1,846,927
	Kyrgyzstan	KG	Bishkek	199,951	7,238,184
	Mari El	ME	Yoshkar-Ola	23,375	1,348,895
	Mordovia	MO	Saransk	26,128	1,060,545
	Ossetia	OS	Java	11,887	1,905,823
	Russia	RU	Vladimir	2,584,391	61,166,899
	Siberia	SB	Krasnoyarsk	9,471,596	44,729,663
	Tajikistan	TJ	Dushanbe	143,100	8,657,425
	Tatarstan	TA	Kazan	67,847	5,092,933
	Transnistria	PM	Tiraspol	4,163	961,875
	Turkmenistan	TM	Ashkhabad	491,210	5,988,619
	Tuva	TY	Kyzyl	168,604	741,910
	Udmurtia	UD	Izhevsk	42,061	1,769,903
	Ukraine	UA	Kiev	576,468	53,491,584
	Uzbekistan	UZ	Tashkent	284,078	39,051,762
	Vainakhia	VA	Grozny	19,332	2,168,372
	Yakutia	SA	Yakutsk	3,083,523	1,513,971