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Yamalia (Yamalo-Nenets, Ямало-Ненецкий автономны округ) is an autonomous district of Tyumen Oblast in the Russian Federation. It is the largest administrative division of Tyumen with an area 750,300 km² but is also the most sparsely populated with only around 550,000 inhabitants. The administrative center is Salekhard (pop. ~35,000), and the largest city by population is Noyabrsk (pop. ~ 100,000).
Yamalia Autonomous District consists of the following districts (Russian: районы):
On December 10, 1930, Yamal (Nenets) National Okrug (Ямальский (Ненецкий) национальный округ) was formed based on Ural Oblast.
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