Moscow metropolitan area or Moscow capital region (Russian

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: Московский столичный регион) is the largest metropolitan area in Russia

Russia

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 and Europe

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, with population of about 15 million people.

Structure of Moscow metropolitan area

Moscow metropolitan area includes the city of Moscow

Moscow

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, a ring of cities annexed to it and administered within (Balashikha

Balashikha

Balashikha is a city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Pekhorka River east of Moscow. It is known for its unique river and waterway system. The Pekhorka River system covers an area of from north to south and from east to west, and many small lakes and ponds were created by damming to...

, Korolyov

Korolyov (city)

Korolyov or Korolev is an industrial city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, well known as the cradle of Soviet and Russian space exploration. It was originally founded as Kaliningrad in 1938 by Vasily Boldyrev, Naum Nosovsky, and Mikhail Loginov as the leading Soviet center for production of anti-tank...

, Krasnogorsk

Krasnogorsk

Krasnogorsk may refer to one of the following:*Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, a city in Moscow Oblast, Russia*Krasnogorsk, Uzbekistan, a town in Uzbekistan...

, Khimki

Khimki

Khimki is a city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, situated just northwest of Moscow, at the west bank of the Moscow Canal. Population: 207,125 ; 141,000 ; 106,000 ; 23,000 .-History:...

, Mytishchi

Mytishchi

Mytishchi is a city and the administrative center of Mytishchinsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia, which lies to the northeast of Russia's capital Moscow, on the Yauza River and the Moscow–Yaroslavl railroad. The city is the oblast's largest center for industry and education...

 and Zelenograd

Zelenograd

Zelenograd is a city, which, along with the territories and settlements under its jurisdiction, forms one of the administrative okrugs of Moscow - Zelenograd Administrative Okrug...

), as well as large nearby towns with population of over 100,000 citizens (Reutov

Reutov

Reútov is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located east of Moscow. Population: 50,200 .In 2007, Reutov was named one of the best places to live in the Russian Federation in the category of small towns with a population of fewer than 100,000 people....

, Zheleznodorozhny

Zheleznodorozhny, Moscow Oblast

Zheleznodorozhny is a city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located east of Moscow. Population: It was founded in 1861 as a settlement servicing the railway station of Obiralovka , made famous by Leo Tolstoy as the death place of the main character of the novel Anna Karenina.In 1938, it was renamed...

, Podolsk

Podolsk

Podolsk is an industrial city and the administrative center of Podolsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is located on the Pakhra River...

 and Lubertsy, to name a few) that fall under regional administration.

Administratively, all those towns are a part of the Moscow Oblast

Moscow Oblast

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. The metropolitan area has thus no coordinated administration structures.