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Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and then Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia, after Moscow, the nation's capital. St. Petersburg is situated on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. Its area of 1,439 km2 (556 sq mi) makes it the smallest administrative division of Russia. In the 2021 census, the city had 5,601,911 residents, making it the fourth-most-populous city in Europe, the most populous city on the Baltic Sea, and the world's northernmost city with a population of more than one million. As the former capital of the Russian Empire and a historically strategic Baltic port, St Petersburg is governed as a federal city.