In 2019 it was enlarged with the addition of the Buryatia Republic and Zabaykalsky Krai.

[2][3] The federal subjects are: This region accounted for 4% of the national GRP in 2008.

Bordering the Pacific Ocean, the region has Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Khabarovsk, Yakutsk, and Vladivostok as its chief cities.

Machinery is produced, and lumbering, fishing, hunting, and fur trapping are important.

The Trans-Siberian Railroad follows the Amur and Ussuri rivers and terminates at the port of Vladivostok.