Nizhny Novgorod

Nizhny Novgorod is located at the confluence of the two largest waterways in the European part of Russia - the Volga and Oka rivers. The city is divided by the Oka into two parts: the eastern elevated Nagornaya, located on the right banks of the Oka and Volga at the northwestern tip of the Volga Upland - the Dyatlovy Gory, and the western (on the left bank of the Oka and the right bank of the Volga) lowland, beyond the river.

The area of ​​the city proper is 410.68[ km². The area of ​​the urban district, which, in addition to the city itself, includes 20 more settlements (after the accession of the Novinsky village council in 2020) is about 515 km², including 465.82 km² of territory within the boundaries until 2020 and 48 74 km² of the territory of the annexed Novinsky Village Council (according to the website of the city administration, the former area of ​​the urban district was about 460 km², according to Rosstat - 410.68 km² without village councils and the resort village). Before joining the urban district of Novinsky Village Council in 2020, 13 settlements were subordinate to the city.