Yekaterinburg (Ekaterinburg, Jekaterinburg) is the city, which is located in two continents - in Europe and in Asia

The frontier between Europe and Asia lies near the City (about 20 km from the centre of the City and 3 km from the border of its territory) along the Old and the New Moscow Roads and crosses the part of the official territory of the city ("Yekaterinburg city municipal formation"). This territory is determined by The Regulations of the City and The Supplement №1 to it (27 February 2001). The "Europian" part of the city includes 5-10% of the territory of the city: the township Medny, the township near lake Chusovskoe and the township near lake Glukhoe. Another part of the "Europian" part of the municipal territory is now covered with the taiga forest. Later this territory will be added and will include some additional townships and villages. After it the "European" part of Yekaterinburg will be 20-25%.

Usually Yekaterinburg is regarded as the city which is located near the frontier between Europe and Asia. But really it is a city, which is located both in Europe and in Asia.

There are a lot of cities on the Ural River, which are located both in Europe and in Asia, because the left shores of such cities are on Asian and the right shores on European territory. But Yekaterinburg is the only city, which is located both in Europe, and in Asia, just on the watershed between the continents.

Yekaterinburg is the ONLY BIG CITY, located just on the frontier between Europe and Asia on the watershed, but not on the river. It is the city, one part of which is in Europe, and the other is in Asia.

Yekaterinburg is the MOST EASTERN EUROPEAN CITY with a population of more than 1 million people.

Yekaterinburg is the MOST EASTERN EUROPEAN CITY which is a great administrative centre - the centre of the province (Sverdlovsk oblast) with a population of nearly 5 millions of people and is the centre the Urals Federal District with a population of more than 20 million of people. This District unites the Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, Kurgan, Tyumen, Khanty-Mansiysk and Yamal-Nenetsk provinces.

In comparison with other cities, the most western capital of continental Europe is Lisbon with a population 681 thousand people and the most western capital all of Europe is Reykjavik with a population of 104 thousand people. The most eastern city of Europe with a population nearly 200 thousand is Vorkuta (Russia, Polar Urals).