Administrative divisions of Leningrad Oblast

Leningrad Oblast, Russia
Administrative center: None
As of 2014:
Number of districts
(районы)
17
Number of cities/towns
(города)
32
Number of urban-type settlements
(посёлки городского типа)
32
Number of volosts
(волости)
205
As of 2002:
Number of rural localities
(сельские населённые пункты)
2,908
Number of uninhabited rural localities
(сельские населённые пункты без населения)
137

Administratively, Leningrad Oblast is divided into seventeen districts and a town of oblast significance, Sosnovy Bor. Lomonosovsky District is the only one in Russia which has its administrative center (the town of Lomonosov) located in the area of a different subject of Russian Federation (the federal city of Saint Petersburg, which is not a part of Leningrad Oblast).

In terms of the area, the biggest administrative district is Podporozhsky District (7,706 square kilometres (2,975 sq mi)); the smallest one is Lomonosovsky District (1,919 square kilometres (741 sq mi)).