'''Bashkortostan''' is a region in the foothills of the Ural Mountains, bordering Tatarstan to the west, Udmurtia to the northwest, Perm Krai to the north, Sverdlovsk Oblast to the northeast, Chelyabinsk Oblast to the east, and Orenburg Oblast to the south.
Regions
Cities
Ufa — the big (over one million residents) capital of Bashkortostan
Krasnousolsky — a village in the sparsely populated and beautiful Gafuriysky Region of Bashkortostan
Neftekamsk — an oil city
Oktyabrsky — a good sized city with a love for auto-racing
Salavat — a mid-sized oil city
Sterlitamak — Bashkortostan's second largest city and a major center of chemicals production
Other destinations
Bashkiria National Park
Bashkirsky Nature Reserve
Shulgan Tash Nature Reserve
Understand
Bashkortostan is named for its native Bashkir people, a Muslim people who speak a Turkic language. Bashkirs, Tatars, and
ethnic Russians each comprise roughly one third of the population of the region.
Bashkortostan is sometimes called _gsecond Switzerland _h: high mountains and expansive steppes, evergreen forests and 600 rivers and 800 lakes. Various kinds of tourism and sport are very popular here, for example rafting and alpine skiing.
Talk
Bashkir, a Turkic language closely related to Tatar, shares official status with Russian. Tatar is also widely spoken. But nearly everyone is at least bilingual in Russian.
Get in
International flights arrive at Ufa from Baku, Frankfurt, Yerevan, and Istanbul. Domestic flights from Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Syktyvkar, Krasnoyarsk, Yekaterinburg, and others.
Ufa is one of the principal stops on the South Ural route of the Trans-Siberian Railway. Trains also arrive from nearby cities Orenburg, Samara, and Chelyabinsk. The daily train from Moscow takes 26 hours. It is also possible to arrive by train from northern Kazakhstan.
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