Demographic changes in Russia's Far east: An emerging challenge

Russia's far east is a region in Northeast Asia. It is the easternmost part of Russia and is administered as part of the Far Eastern Federal District, which lies between Lake Baikal and the Pacific Ocean and shares land borders with Mongolia, China. and North Korea in the south and the maritime borders with Japan in the southeast and the United States along the Bering Strait in the northeast. Although the region is often viewed as part of Siberia abroad, Russian Far East was historically categorized separately from Siberia in Russian regional plans (and earlier during the Soviet era when it was called the Soviet Far East).