List of territorial entities where Russian is an official language

This is a list of countries and territories where Russian is an official language:

Countries where Russian is an official language

Country	Population 2010[1]	Native Russian speakers	Est. total speakers	Status of Russian	More info
Total					Russian language
Belarus	9,480,178	x	x	2-nd state language	Languages of Belarus
Kazakhstan	17,736,896	x	x	official
Kyrgyzstan	5,418,300		x	2-nd official	Languages of Kyrgyzstan
Russia	142,914,509	x	x	State language	Languages of Russia
Tajikistan	7,616,400	x	x	official inter-ethnic communication	Languages of Tajikistan

Regions where Russian is an official language

Region	Country	Status	Population	Native Russian speakers	Est. total speakers	Status of Russian	More info
Abkhazia	Georgia	De facto independent[2][3]		x	x	Official	Languages of Abkhazia
South Ossetia	Georgia	De facto independent[3][4]		x	x	Official	Languages of South Ossetia
Transnistria	Moldova	De facto independent		x	x	Official	Languages of Transnistria
Gagauzia	Moldova	Autonomous region		x	x	Official	Languages of Moldova
Kherson Oblast	Ukraine	Oblast		x	x	Regional	Languages of Ukraine
Mykolaiv Oblast	Ukraine	Oblast		x	x	Regional	Languages of Ukraine
Odessa Oblast	Ukraine	Oblast		x	x	Regional	Languages of Ukraine
Kharkiv Oblast	Ukraine	Oblast		x	x	Regional	Languages of Ukraine
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast	Ukraine	Oblast		x	x	Regional	Languages of Ukraine
Republic of Crimea	Ukraine,  Russia (de facto)	Partially recognized referendum		x	x	Official	Languages of Crimea
A number of municipalities in Tulcea and Constanța counties	Romania			18,946[5]	x	Local	Languages of Romania
Russian Economic Zone in Spitsbergen	Norway			x	x		Demographics of Svalbard

Organisations with Russian as an official language

•  United Nations
  • IAEA
  • ICAO
  •  UNESCO
  •  WHO
•  CIS
• EAEC
• CSTO
• SCO
• OSCE
• ATS
• ISO

Other

In addition to the above-mentioned countries in which Russian is an official language, there are several other countries where Russian, though not official, is spoken by a significant portion of the population, and is thus an important secondary language in these countries. These include:

•  Armenia, see: Russian language in Armenia
•  Azerbaijan, see: Russian language in Azerbaijan
•  Estonia, see: Russian language in Estonia
•  Georgia
•  Israel, see: Russian language in Israel
•  Latvia, see: Russian language in Latvia
•  Lithuania
•  Moldova, see: Russian language in Moldova
•  Mongolia
•  Turkmenistan
•  Uzbekistan

References

1. See: List of countries by population in 2010
2. Конституция Республики Абхазия (in Russian). President of Abkhazia. Retrieved 2009-03-17.
3. Abkhazia and South Ossetia are partially recognised independent states
4. Конституции Республики Южная Осетия [Constitution of the Republic of South Ossetia] (in Russian). The State Committee on Information and Press of the Republic of South Ossetia. 15 October 2004. Archived from the original on 6 October 2008. Retrieved 17 March 2009.
5. 2011 Romanian census