Overview
Saratov Oblast is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in the Volga Federal District. Its administrative center is the city of Saratov. As of the 2021 Census, its population was 2,442,575.
Geography
The oblast is located in the southeast of European Russia, in the northern part of the Lower Volga region. From west to east its territory stretches for , and from north to south for . The highest point of Saratov Oblast is an unnamed hill of the Khvalynsk Mountains reaching above sea level.
The oblast borders on:
Volgograd Oblast to the south
Voronezh and Tambov oblasts to the west
Penza, Samara and Ulyanovsk oblasts to the north;
Kazakhstan (West Kazakhstan Region) to the east
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