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Jewish Autonomous Oblast
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Jewish Autonomous Oblast
The
Jewish Autonomous Oblast
(,
Yevreyskaya avtonomnaya oblast
; ,
yidishe avtonome gegnt
) is a
federal subject
of
Russia
(an
autonomous oblast
) in the
Russian Far East
, bordering
Khabarovsk Krai
and
Amur Oblast
in Russia and
Heilongjiang
province in
China
. It is also referred to as "Yevrey" (Yiddish: יעװרײ) and "Birobidzhan" (Yiddish: ביראָבידזשאַן). Its
administrative center
is the
town
of
Birobidzhan
. As of the
2010 Census
, its population was 176,558, although Jews nowadays make barely 0.2% of the JAO's population. The JAO is Russia's only
autonomous oblast
and, aside from
Israel
, the world's only Jewish territory with an official status.
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