Principal rivers include the Ob and its tributaries Irtysh and Vatinsky Yogan.

[12] The northeasterly line of equal latitude and longitude traverses the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug.

The administrative center is Khanty-Mansiysk, but the largest cities are Surgut, Nizhnevartovsk, and Nefteyugansk.

The exploitation of natural gas in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug has attracted immigrants from all over the former Soviet Union.

In addition, 23% of the population declares to be spiritual but not religious, 11% is atheist, and 10.9% follows other religions or did not give an answer to the question.