Administrative centre of the Tyumen region is Tyumen. Distance from Tyumen to Moscow is 2144 kilometres, time in flight is two and a half an hour.
Territory is161,8 thousand square kilometres.
Population is1 million 334 thousand persons.

The Tyumen region, having considerable natural resources, possesses the developed branched out structure of the industry.
Bowels of the Tyumen region contain oil, peat, components for building materials, fresh and mineral waters.
More than 2/3 northern parts of territory enter into limits Kaymysovskoy oil and gas area. All oil deposits are opened in northern part of region – in Uvat area
The region makes peat, industrial stocks (495 deposits are opened) which are estimated in 37 billion metre cubic, in working out – 5 deposits. In separate peat deposits large deposits of mullicite (about 20 % of world's reserves) which use can satisfy requirements of agriculture for phosphatic fertilizers are revealed.

Extraction of sapropels, quartz sands, brick and keramzite clays, limestones, a building stone is made in the territory of region. 210 deposits of brick, clayite and sandy loams with stocks of 631 million cubic metres open, a number of deposits with the general stocks of 90 million cubic metres are in working out.
More than 44 % of ground fund of the south of area occupy woods. The basic forest trees are  birch,  pine,  fur-tree,  fir,  aspen,  cedar,  larch.
Now the area of the agricultural grounds not used in the south of area makes about 700 thousand hectares, of them 284 thousand - a productive arable land.

The south of the Tyumen region is rich with stocks of fresh and mineral water. Considerable stocks of iodine and bromine contain in underground waters. The largest iodine-bromic deposits are Cherkashinsky and Tobolsk which stocks of iodide waters have industrial value.
The presence of a considerable quantity of the rivers and lakes is characteristic for region. The most extended rivers are Irtysh, Tobol, Ishim, Tavda, Tura, the largest lakes are Bolshoy Uvat, Chernoye. About 30 kinds of fishes from which 20 have trade value lives in reservoirs.

The high urban saturation is characteristic for the Tyumen region: on the share of an urban population 77 % is accounted 23 % of rural. There are 67 % of inhabitants of area in active working age, 21 % of inhabitants are under the active working age, 12 % of residents are over the active working age.