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Chukotka is not a republic or krai, it's an autonomous okrug. Roughly translated, that's a district, province or county. Okrugs were created in the 1920s to provide autonomy to the indigenous people of the North. But from a federal stand point, it sits equal to all the other subjects of the Russian Federation.

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1. Chukotka is the 2nd-least-populated federal subject at 50,526 (2010) and the least densely populated. The autonomous okrug's surface area is 737,700 square kilometers, about 6% larger than the U.S. state of Texas, and is the 7th-largest Russian federal subject. The region is the most northeasterly region of Russia, and since the Alaska Purchase has been the only part of Russia lying partially in the Western Hemisphere (east of the 180th meridian).

2. The first inhabitants were Paleo-Siberian hunters who came to Chukotka from Central and East Asia. The area was then part of the Beringia land bridge that is believed to have enabled human migration to the Americas.

3. Anadyr is the largest town and the capital of Chukotka, and the easternmost settlement to have town status in Russia.

4. Chukotka is home to Elgygytgyn Lake, an impact crater lake. The word "Elgygytgyn" means "white lake" in the Chukchi language. The lake is centered within an impact crater with a rim diameter of 18 km (11 mi) that formed 3.6 million years ago during the Pliocene.

5. Chukotka is primarily populated by ethnic Russians (52%), Chukchis (27%), and other indigenous peoples. The Chukchi originated from the people living around the Okhotsk Sea. According to recent genomic research, the Chukchi are the closest Asiatic relatives of the indigenous peoples of the Americas.

6. The Chukchi Peninsula projects eastward forming the Bering Strait between Siberia and the Alaska Peninsula, and encloses the north side of the Gulf of Anadyr. The peninsula's easternmost point, Cape Dezhnev, is also the easternmost point of mainland Russia. Ecologically, Chukotka can be divided into three distinct areas: the northern Arctic desert, the central tundra, and the taiga in the south. About half of its area is above the Arctic Circle. This area is very mountainous, containing the Chukotsky Mountains (highest point Iskhodnaya) and the Anadyr Highlands.

7. Wrangel Island is an island in the Arctic Ocean, between the Chukchi Sea and East Siberian Sea. It may have been the last place on earth where mammoths survived. Woolly mammoths survived there until 2500–2000 BC, the most recent survival of all known mammoth populations. Isolated from the mainland for 6000 years, about 500 to 1000 mammoths lived on the island at a time.

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