page_title: Vladivostok
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Vladivostok / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Trams in Vladivostok
context_page_description: Vladivostok is a city and the administrative centre of the Far Eastern Federal District and Primorsky Krai, Russia, located around the Golden Horn Bay, not far from Russia's borders with China and North Korea. The population of the city as of 2019 was 605,049, up from 592,034 recorded in the 2010 Russian census. Harbin in China is about 515 kilometres away, while Sapporo in Japan is about 775 kilometres east across the Sea of Japan.
  The city is the home port of the Russian Pacific Fleet and is the largest Russian port on the Pacific coast.
context_section_description: The city is located in the southern extremity of Muravyov-Amursky Peninsula, which is about 30 kilometers (19 mi) long and 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) wide.
  The highest point is Mount Kholodilnik, 257 meters (843 ft). Eagle's Nest Hill is often called the highest point of the city; but, with a height of only 199 meters (653 ft), or 214 meters (702 ft) according to other sources, it is the highest point of the downtown area, but not of the whole city.
  Located in the extreme southeast of Asian Russia, Vladivostok is geographically closer to Anchorage, Alaska and even Darwin, Australia than it is to the nation's capital of Moscow. Vladivostok is also closer to Honolulu, Hawaii than to the western Russian city of Sochi.
caption: City centre in September 1982
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