Russian Empire Census, 1897

Native language. Uezd detail for European Russia; governorates elsewhere. All placenames are latin transliteration of 1897 Russian names

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Language

≤75100≥133

Grey: fewer than speakers.

Group languages under this share into “Other”

People per dot Dot size

Dark area borders

Dots are spread evenly (Poisson-disk) in each area, outside the town pies, and coloured at random in proportion to speakers. Dot size shrinks with density at half the rate of spacing, so dense areas look crowded.

Sector height

Height scale

Town pie radius per 100k people

Radius scales with √population, so area ∝ population.

Show towns separately (areas use rural counts)

All languages by family

Data: Demoscope Weekly (1897 census tables). Boundaries: RISTAT, Kessler & Markevich (CC0). Town locations: GeoNames. Tilt: right-drag or ctrl-drag.