3279 thousand people live in Samara permanently. The largest cities are Samara (1210,6 thousand people), Togliatti (724,1 thousand people), Syzran (187,3 thousand people), Novokuibyshevsk (117,6 thousand people), Chapayevsk (86,7 thousand people), Zhigulyovsk (59,8 thousand people), Otradny (53,4 thousand people).
The oblast is quite diverse in terms of its ethnic identity. The Russians make the larger part of the oblast population – 83,4. Other nationalities are represented in the following way: Tatars – 3,6
Other nationalities are represented in the following way: Tartars – 3,6%, the Mordvinians – 3,6%, the Chuvashes – 3,6%, the Ukranians – 2,5%, the Belorussians – 0,6%, the Kazakhs – 0,4%, the Jews – 0,4%, Germans – 0,3%, the Bashkirs – 0,2, the Mari – 0,1 %, other nationalities – 1,3%. Currently the Cossak movement, the first outlaws, is being revived in Samara Oblast.
Samara Oblast territory comprises 11 towns (the cities of Samara and Togliatti are made up of 12 city districts), 24 urban villages and 27 rural districts(comprising 324 local rural administrations).
Samara Oblast is made up of the following cities and towns: Samara, Togliatti, Syzran, Novokuibyshevsk, Chapayevsk, Otradny, Zhigulyovsk, Oktyabrsk, Kinel, Pokhvistnevo, Neftegorsk. And the rural districts of Alekseyevka, Bezenchuk, Bogatoye, Bolshaya Glushitsa, Bolshaya Chernigovka, Borskoye, Volzhsky, Elkhovka, Isakly, Kamyshly, Kinel, Kinel-Cherkassy, Klyavlino, Koshki, Krasnoarmeysk, Krasny Yar, Neftegorsk, Pestravka, Pokhvistnevo, Sergievsk, Stavropolsky, Syzran, Khvorostyanka, Chelno-Vershiny, Shentaly and Shigony districts.
