page_title: Dagestan
section_title: Vital statistics
hierarchical_section_title: Dagestan / Demographics / Vital statistics
caption_attribution_description: English: Dagestani couple posed outdoors for a portrait.
context_page_description: Dagestan, officially the Republic of Dagestan, is a federal subject of Russia, located in the North Caucasus region. Its capital and largest city is Makhachkala, centrally located on the Caspian Sea coast.
  With a population of 2,910,249, Dagestan is very ethnically diverse and Russia's most heterogeneous republic. Russian is the primary official language and the lingua franca among the ethnicities. Largest among the ethnicities are the Russian, Avar, Dargin, Kumyk, Lezgian, Laks, Azerbaijani, Tabasaran, Rutuls, Tats, Tsakhurs, Noghai, Aghul and Chechen. The republic’s chief cities are Makhachkala, Derbent, Kizlyar, Izberbash, Kaspiysk and Buynaksk.
context_section_description: Source: Russian Federal State Statistics Service
caption: A couple in Dagestan. Photographed by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, circa 1907 to 1915
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