The number of administrative units is 43 districts, 10 **** and State-affiliated municipalities, 8 district municipalities, 9 municipal districts, 24 municipalities, 833 administrative farms.

The capital of Tatarstan*** and the State is Kazan (Russian: Каза?нь; Tatar: Qazan or Казан), located on the left bank of the Middle Volga, on the northwestern bank of the Gubishev Reservoir and at the entrance to the Kazanka River. Founded in 1438, the distance from Kazan to Moscow is 797 kilometers. There are seven districts in the city: Baumansk, Vakhitovsk, Kirov, Lenin, Moscow, along the Volga and Soviet.

Other **** and state-owned municipalities are: Almetyevskoe, founded in 1953; Chernay, founded in 1930; Bugulima, founded in 1781; Yelabuga, founded in 1780; Zainsk, founded in 1978; Zelenodolsk, founded in 1932; Leninogorsk, founded in 1955; Nizhniy Kamsk, founded in 1966; and Leninogorsk, founded in 1955. Sk, founded in 1966; and Chistopol, founded in 1781.