Context: Russia (from the  Rus'), also officially known as the Russian Federation, is a country in Eurasia. At , Russia is the largest country in the world by surface area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the ninth most populous, with over 140 million people at the end of March 2016. The European western part of the country is much more populated and urbanised than the eastern, about 77% of the population live in European Russia. Russia's capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world, other major urban centers include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod and Samara., Simferopol City Municipality (officially "the territory governed by the Simferopol city council") is one of the 25 regions of the Crimean peninsula, currently subject to a territorial dispute between the Russian Federation and Ukraine. Population: , Eurasia is the combined continental landmass of Europe and Asia. The term is a portmanteau of its constituent continents. Located primarily in the Northern and Eastern Hemispheres, it is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Pacific Ocean to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and by Africa, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Indian Ocean to the south. The division between Europe and Asia as two different continents is a historical and cultural construct, with no clear physical separation between them; thus, in some parts of the world, Eurasia is recognized as the largest of five or six continents. In geology, Eurasia is often considered as a single rigid megablock. However, the rigidity of Eurasia is debated based on the paleomagnet data., Moscow (or ) is the capital and most populous city of Russia, with 12.2 million residents within the city limits and 16.8 million within the urban area. Moscow has the status of a Russian federal city., Simferopol Raion is one of the 25 regions of the Crimean peninsula, currently subject to a territorial dispute between the Russian Federation and Ukraine. The administrative center of the raion is the city of Simferopol which is incorporated as a town of republican significance and is not a part of the district. The Simferopol Raion is situated in the central part of the peninsula. Population: , The Crimean Oblast ( Ukrainian :   Krymska oblast '' ; Russian :   Krymskaya oblast '' ; Crimean Tatar : Qrm vilâyeti ) was an oblast ( province ) of the former Russian SFSR ( 1945 -- 1954 ) and Ukrainian SSR ( 1954 -- 1991 ) within the Soviet Union . Its capital was the city of Simferopol . The Crimean Oblast replaced the Crimean ASSR on June 30 , 1945 . The oblast was transferred from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR on February 19 , 1954 . Sevastopol was a closed city due to its importance as the port of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet and was attached to the Crimean Oblast only in 1978 . Following a referendum held on January 20 , 1991 , the Crimean Oblast was given back its pre-WWII status of Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic on February 12 , 1991 , by the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR . In 1992 , the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was transformed into the Autonomous Republic of Crimea within Ukraine , with the exception of the city of Sevastopol whose status , once again due to its strategic importance as the port of the Russian Black Sea Fleet , remained disputed between Ukraine and Russia until 1997 , when it was agreed that it should be treated as a `` city with special status '' within Ukraine ., The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR " ) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991. A union of multiple subnational republics, its government and economy were highly centralized. The Soviet Union was a one-party federation, governed by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital., Ukraine (tr. ) is a sovereign state in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Belarus to the northwest, Poland and Slovakia to the west, Hungary, Romania, and Moldova to the southwest, and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south and southeast, respectively. Ukraine is currently in territorial dispute with Russia over the Crimean Peninsula which Russia annexed in 2014 but which Ukraine and most of the international community recognise as Ukrainian. Including Crimea, Ukraine has an area of , making it the largest country entirely within Europe and the 46th largest country in the world. It has a population of about 44.5 million, making it the 32nd most populous country in the world., Simferopol ("" ) is a city on the Crimean peninsula, the status of which is disputed between Ukraine and Russia. As a result of 2014 vote to join Russia, which was held during Russian military intervention, and the subsequent annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, Simferopol has, de facto, been the administrative centre of the Republic of Crimea though it remains, de jure, the capital of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Simferopol is an important political, economic, and transport hub of the peninsula and serves as the administrative center of both Simferopol municipality and Simferopol Raion though it does not belong to the raion. Population: , Subject: crimean oblast, Relation: located_on_terrain_feature, Options: (A) africa (B) arctic ocean (C) asia (D) atlantic ocean (E) black sea (F) crimean peninsula (G) eastern europe (H) eurasia (I) moldova (J) moscow (K) romania (L) russia (M) ukraine
Output: crimean peninsula