Welcome to Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug!
Yamalia (Russian: Яма́ло-Нене́цкий автоно́мный о́круг) is the northernmost region in Russia's Urals Region and is home to Russia's most important natural gas deposits as well as large West Siberian oilfields. Located in the middle of Russia's Arctic Ocean coast, Yamalia is about as remote a destination as one could possibly choose and is rarely visited by anyone except those on oil and gas business.
The region borders the Arctic Ocean in the northwest and north (this part of Yamalia is split into two by the Gulf of Ob), Taymyria to the northeast, the Krasnoyarsk region to the east, Khantia-Mansia to the south, and Komi Republic and Nenetsia to the west.
The Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (YaNAO, Russian: Яма́ло-Не́нецкий автоно́мный о́круг (ЯНАО), Yamalo-Nenetsky Avtonomny Okrug (YaNAO), Nenets: Ямалы-Ненёцие автономной ӈокрук, Yamaly-Nenyotsiye avtonomnoy ŋokruk) is a federal subject of Russia (an autonomous okrug of Tyumen Oblast). Its administrative center is the town of Salekhard, and its largest city is Noyabrsk. The 2010 Russian Census recorded its population as 522,904.