The area officially declared in the twenties to be occupied by the northern minority nationalities comprises about half of the territory of the Soviet Union. Its southern boundary extends all the way from Kandalaksha through Kozhva, Tobol'sk, and Yeniseisk to Sovetskaya Gavan'. According to the census of 1926, its sparse population totaled some 645,000, of whom only 56 percent, or 366,000, were northern nomads. Administratively the northern territory excluding the Kola Peninsula, Kamchatka and some other regions, is divided at present into the Yakut and Komi Autonomous Republics and into the following seven national okrugs: the Nenets, Yamal-Nenets, Khanty-Mansi, Taimyr, Evenki, Chukchi, and Koryak.