The Republic of Kalmykia is a sunject of Russian Federation, and is part of the Southern Administrative District. The capital city is Elista.

The territory of the republic is 76.1 thoudsand square km (0.4% of Russia's territory).

By January 1, 2001, the republic consists of 11 administrative regions, 3 cities, 112 rural municipal formations, 273 rural settlements.

Political division
(for beginning of years, within the borders of corresponding years)

Year	Cities of republican subjection	Cities of regional subjection	Urban-type community	Regions	Rural administrations
1921	-	-	-	8	64
1941	1	-	1	14	124
1961	1	-	2	11	61
1971	1	2	6	12	83
1981	1	2	6	13	96
1991	1	2	6	13	104
1997	1	2	-	13	114
1998	1	2	-	13	114
1999	1	2	-	13	114
2000	1	2	-	13	113
2001	1	2	-	13	112

Number of administrative units
On January 1, 2001

	Terri- tory, thou- sand sq. km	Administrative center of region	Num- ber of cities	Number of rural administ- rations in region	Number of rural settle- ments in region	Permanent population of region, thousand
Republic of Kalmykia	76.11)		3	112	273	314.3
Elista Municipal Formation	0.2	Elista	1	-	4	111.9
Gorodovikovsky region	1.1	Gorodovikovsk	1	6	18	19.1
Iki-Burulsky region	6.4	Iki-Burul	-	13	30	12.0
Lagansky region	4.7	Lagan	1	4	5	21.9
Maloderbetovsky region	3.7	Malye Derbety	-	6	10	11.6
Oktyabrsky region	3.7	Bolshoi Tsaryn	-	7	12	10.9
Ketchenerovsky region	6.5	Ketchenery	-	9	23	13.1
Priyutnensky region	3.1	Priyutnoye	-	8	24	13.6
Sarpinsky region	3.7	Sadovoye	-	9	17	16.4
Tselinny region	5.2	Troitskoye	-	11	25	20.8
Chernozemelsky region	14.2	Komsomolsky	-	8	36	14.0
Yustinsky region	8.0	Tsagan-Aman	-	7	15	11.9
Yashaltinsky region	2.4	Yashalta	-	11	25	19.8
Yashkulsky region	11.8	Yashkul	-	13	29	17.3

¹⁾ including 1.4 thousand sq. km. of coastal stripe of Caspian Sea not registered with any of the regions.