Last modified: 1997-09-03 by giuseppe bottasini
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See also: Russian Federation
Full name: Birobijan
Location: Russian Far East.
Status: Part of the Russian Federation.
Notes: One of the more bizarre Soviet attempts at national engineering, the
Jewish Autonomous Region was established in 1934 as the national homeland
of all Jews. World Jewry, very sensibly, declined to emigrate to their
'homeland', which today has a Jewish population of under 6%. The flag of
the region is reputed to comprise a horizontal tricolour of light blue over
white over yellow stripes.