718 



RUSSIA. 



The area and population of the great divisions 

 of the Russian Empire were, according to the 

 latest dates (1867), as follows : 



The most densely peopled portion of the 



empire is the ten Polish provinces. In a ter- 

 ritory of 107,221 square versts, or 47,113 Eng- 

 lish square miles, there are 5,705,607 souls, 

 which gives an average of 53 inhabitants per 

 square verst, or 121 per English square mile. 

 Of the Russian provinces, those in which in- 

 dustry has attained its highest degree of prog- 

 ress, and those in which the cultivation of 

 the soil or its more favorahle conditions ena- 

 ble it to insure the means of subsistence to a 

 larger number, are the most thickly populated. 

 Thus, Moscow shows an average of 126 inhab- 



