🏛️ Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg

Russia · Europe · Cultural · 59.94°N, 30.31°E

Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd (Петроград), and later Leningrad (Ленинград), is the second-largest city in Russia, after Moscow, the nation's capital. Situated on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea, its area of 1,439 square kilometers (556 sq mi) makes it the smallest administrative division of Russia by area. The city had a population of 5,601,911 residents as of 2021, with more than 6.4 million people living in the metropolitan area. Saint Petersburg is the fourth-most populous city in Europe, the most populous city on the Baltic Sea, and the world's northernmost city of more than 1 million residents. As the former capital of the Russian Empire, and a historically strategic Baltic port, it is governed as a federal city.

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Quick facts

Country	Russia
Continent / region	Europe
List type	🏛️ Cultural heritage site
Coordinates (approx.)	59.94°N, 30.31°E · view on map

Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg is a cultural World Heritage site in Russia, in Europe. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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