page_title: Geography of Primorsky Krai
section_title: Physical characteristics
hierarchical_section_title: Geography of Primorsky Krai / Physical characteristics
caption_attribution_description: English: Blank map of Primorsky krai with district subdivision, and with position of Primorsky krai on the map of Russia. Русский: Бланковая карта Приморского края с границами районов и с позиционной картой России в левом верхнем углу.
context_page_description: Primorsky Krai is located in the southern far east, in the south-eastern part of Russia. In the north it borders with Khabarovsk Krai, in the west with the Chinese Provinces of Jilin and Heilongjiang, in the south-west with North Korea and at the south-east with the Sea of Japan. The total length of the borders is 3,000 km and the coastline is 1,500 km. The total area is 165,900 km² which is 0.97% of the total area of Russia, which makes it 23rd largest federal subject of Russia. The total length of the krai is 900 km and the width is 280 km.
  Primorsky Krai has been federal subject of the Russian SFSR and then of Russian Federation since 1991. The krai also had the numerous islands; including Russky Island, Popov Island, Rikord Island, Putyatin Island and others. The major physiographic regions of the Primorsky Krai are Sikotin-Alin and East Manchuria.
  Sikhote-Alin is a mountain range. Mountain ranges with rounded peaks and gentle slopes, emphazing the wide development of dome structures here, extend as a whole subparallel with each other from south-west to the north-east till they entered in Khabarovsk Krai.
context_section_description: The highest peak of Primorsky Krai is Mount Anik with a height of 1,933 meters, located in the north-east of krai near the border with Khabarovsk Krai. The lowest point is Sea of Japan. The second highest peak is Cloudy Peak (1,855 meters) in the southeast of the Chuguyevsky District. 
  In the southwest, there is Lake Khanka, which is the largest lake of the krai, near the border with China. The longest river is Ussuri, the source of the river is located on the slopes of the Snezhnaya mountains. The most of the Ussuri flows between the border of China and Russia. The other largest rivers are Bolshaya Ussurka, Malinovka and Arsenyevka rivers.
caption: Borders of Primorsky Krai districts
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