Central Economic Region

Central Economic Region Центра́льный экономи́ческий райо́н
Economic region
Moscow, the largest city in the region
Map of Central Economic Region
Country	Russia
Area
• Total	484,000 km2 (187,000 sq mi)
Population (2021)
• Total	33,276,581
• Density	69/km2 (180/sq mi)
GDP [1]
• Total	₽ 42,746 billion US$ 611.550 billion (2022)

The Central Economic Region (Russian: Центра́льный экономи́ческий райо́н, romanized: Tsentral'nyy ekonomicheskiy rayon) is one of twelve economic regions of Russia.

Central Economic Region is located in the central portion of the European part of Russia. A great number of automobile and railroads intersect on the territory of this region.

This flat, rolling country, with Moscow as its center, forms a major industrial region. Besides Moscow, major cities include Smolensk, Yaroslavl, Vladimir, Tula, Dzerzhinsky, and Rybinsk. Trucks, ships, railway rolling stock, machine tools, electronic equipment, cotton and woolen textiles, and chemicals are the principal industrial products. The Volga and Oka Rivers are the major water routes, and the Moscow–Volga and Don–Volga canals link Moscow with the Caspian and Baltic Seas. Many rail lines serve the area.^[2]