The territory of the region is located in the basin of the river Kama, which provides the exit to 5 seas (the Caspian, Azov, Black, Baltic and White). Length from north to south is 645 km, form west to east - 417.5 km. The region borders on the republic of Komi in the north, on Kirovskaya region and Udmurtia in the west, on Bashkortostan in the south, on Sverdlovskaya region in the east.

Population: 3 009 th.p. The largest cities in the oblast are Perm (population 1.1+ million people), Bereznyaky (201.8 thousand people), and Solikamsk (over 109 thousand people). 76 percent of the population is urban.

Economy: There are a lot of different minerals in the region. More than 160 fields of hydrocarbon raw materials, among them 89 oil-fields, 3 gas-fields and 18 oil-gas fields. Coal has been mining during 200 years. In Permskaya region there is a unique field of potassium salt, one of the biggest in the world.

Administrative division: Permskaya region was founded on 3 October 1938. The region is divided into 36 administrative districts, 25 towns (13 of regional submission), 56 town settlements and 516 villages. Administrative centre of the region is Perm (1096.1 people).