Moscow region

The Moscow Region is the general unofficial name of Moscow and the Moscow Region , which, formally being various subjects of the Russian Federation , have in many ways a common economy and transport infrastructure. Such concepts as the Moscow Aviation Hub , the Moscow Railway Junction , the Moscow Agglomeration , etc. correlate with the Moscow Region concept

For 2018, the total population of the Moscow region is, according to official figures, more than 20 million people , territory - 46.9 thousand square meters. km . The total gross regional product as of 2016 amounted to about 17 trillion rubles. .

Since the allocation of Moscow into a separate subject of the federation, proposals have been repeatedly made to unite Moscow and the Moscow Region into a single metropolitan region ^[1] .