Map - Jewish Autonomous Oblast (Yevrey (Jewish) Autonomous Oblast)

Jewish Autonomous Oblast (Yevrey (Jewish) Autonomous Oblast)
The Jewish Autonomous Oblast (JAO; Евре́йская автоно́мная о́бласть, Yevreyskaya avtonomnaya oblast (ЕАО); ייִדישע אװטאָנאָמע געגנט, yidishe avtonome gegnt; ) is a federal subject of Russia in the Russian Far East, bordering Khabarovsk Krai and Amur Oblast in Russia and Heilongjiang province in China. Its administrative center is the town of Birobidzhan.

The JAO was designated by a Soviet official decree in 1928, and officially established in 1934. At its height, in the late 1940s, the Jewish population in the region peaked around 46,000–50,000, approximately 25% of the population. As of the 2010 Census, JAO's total population was 176,558 people, or 0.1% of the total population of Russia. By 2010, there were only 1,628 Jews remaining in the JAO, or fewer than 1% of the population, according to data provided by the Russian Census Bureau, while ethnic Russians made up 92.7% of the JAO population. Judaism is practiced by only 0.2% of the population of the JAO.

Article 65 of the Constitution of Russia provides that the JAO is Russia's only autonomous oblast. It is one of two official Jewish jurisdictions in the world, the other being Israel.

 
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