 Kemerovo Oblast

Kemerovo Oblast (, "Kemerovskaya oblast", ), also known as Kuzbass () and Kemerovo Oblast — Kuzbass after the Kuznetsk Basin, is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in southwestern Siberia, where the West Siberian Plain meets the South Siberian Mountains.The oblast, which covers an area of , shares a border with Tomsk Oblast in the north, Krasnoyarsk Krai and the Republic of Khakassia in the east, the Altai Republic in the south, and with Novosibirsk Oblast and Altai Krai in the west.