Ural Economic Region

Japanese: ウラル経済地域 - うらるけいざいちいき
Ural Economic Region

...The Urals are rich in copper, magnesite, titanium, nickel, coal (Chelyabinsk coalfield and Pechora), gold, platinum, bauxite, oil (Volga-Ural oilfield), natural gas (Orenburg gas field), potash salts, and precious stones such as malachite. On a map, the Urals appear as a large mountain range, but in Russia, the peaks and watersheds are not considered to be any kind of boundary line dividing the region. Rather, the Ural Economic Region (approximately 680,000 km2) has been established, including the Ural Mountains and their foothills on both the east and west, and the population is rapidly increasing. [Watanabe Kazuo]...

*Some of the terminology used in the "Urals Economic Region" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…銅,マグネサイト,チタン,ニッケル,石炭(チェリャビンスク炭田およびペチョラ),金,白金,ボーキサイト,石油(ボルガ・ウラル油田),天然ガス(オレンブルグ・ガス田),カリ塩など,貴石ではマラカイトなどを豊産する。地図で見るとウラルは大きな山脈の形状を呈するが,ロシアでは,その山頂や分水嶺は地域を分けるなんらかの境界線とはみなされておらず,むしろウラル山脈とその東西両麓を含めて,帯状の〈ウラル経済地域〉(約68万km2)が設定されて,人口も急増している。【渡辺 一夫】。…

※「ウラル経済地域」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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