Red Square in Moscow, Russia

Red Square in Moscow, Russia
Red Square - view towards Historical Museum

Thursday, February 9, 2012

What regions have most cars?

Yesterday, Alfa Strakhovanie insurance company published a list of the regions of Russia ranked on the car ownership rate that was figured out based on the Census of 2010.
This is a different statistic, presumably, from the State Statistical Committee data. In any case, the not-so-suprising leader is Primorsky Kray (Vladivostok is the capital there) with 580 cars per 1000 residents. In the top five are also Kamchatka (428), Kaluzhskaya Oblast (347), Murmanskaya Oblast (327) and Pskovskaya Oblast (312). The city of Moscow is in the 8th place with 299, which is slightly less than Kaliningradskaya (309) and Moscow oblast (307). The bottom of the list are Ivanovskaya (158) and Tulskaya (161) oblasts. A question for geographers to think about: can you explain why these specific regions made it to the top (or bottom) respectively.