Penza Governorate

Penza Governorate (Пензенская губерния) was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire and Russian SFSR, located in the Volga Region. It existed from 1780 to 1797 and again from 1801 to 1928; its capital was in Penza.

Uyezds
Penza Governorate was subdivided into ten uyezds:


 * Gorodishchensky Uyezd
 * Insarsky Uyezd
 * Kerensky Uyezd
 * Krasnoslobodsky Uyezd
 * Mokshansky Uyezd
 * Narovchatsky Uyezd
 * Nizhnelomovsky Uyezd
 * Penzensky Uyezd
 * Saransky Uyezd
 * Chembarsky Uyezd

Demographics
At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Penza Governorate had a population of 1,470,474. Of these, 83.0% spoke Russian, 12.8% Mordvin, 4.0% Tatar, 0.1% Ukrainian and 0.1% Polish as their native language.