Russia
country
Moscow
capital city
Russian
language(s)
RUB
currency
17,075,400 km²
area
143,420,309
population
8.4 people/km²
population density
Russia
Regions of Russia
- Aginskiy Buryatskiy Avtonomnyy Okrug
- Altayskiy Kray
- Amurskaya Oblast'
- Arkhangel'skaya Oblast'
- Astrakhanskaya Oblast'
- Belgorodskaya Oblast'
- Bryanskaya Oblast'
- Chechnya
- Chelyabinskaya Oblast'
- Chitinskaya Oblast'
- Chukotskiy Avtonomnyy Okrug
- Chuvashia
- Dagestan
- Evenkiyskiy Avtonomnyy Okrug
- Ferzikovskiy Rayon
- Irkutskaya Oblast'
- Ivanovskaya Oblast’
- Jewish Autonomous Oblast
- Kabardino-Balkarskaya Respublika
- Kaliningradskaya Oblast'
- Kaluzhskaya Oblast’
- Kamchatskaya Oblast'
- Karachayevo-Cherkesskaya Respublika
- Kemerovskaya Oblast'
- Khabarovsk Krai
- Khanty-Mansiyskiy Avtonomnyy Okrug
- Kirovskaya Oblast'
- Koryakskiy Avtonomnyy Okrug
- Kostromskaya Oblast'
- Krasnodarskiy Kray
- Krasnoyarskiy Kray
- Kurganskaya Oblast'
- Kurskaya Oblast'
- Leningradskaya Oblast'
- Lipetskaya Oblast'
- Magadanskaya Oblast'
- Moscow
- Moskovskaya Oblast’
- Murmansk Oblast
- Nenetskiy Avtonomnyy Okrug
- Nizhegorodskaya Oblast’
- Novgorodskaya Oblast'
- Novosibirskaya Oblast'
- Omskaya Oblast'
- Orenburgskaya Oblast'
- Orlovskaya Oblast'
- Penzenskaya Oblast'
- Permskaya Oblast’
- Permskiy Kray
- Primorskiy Kray
- Pskovskaya Oblast'
- Respublika Adygeya
- Respublika Altay
- Respublika Bashkortostan
- Respublika Buryatiya
- Respublika Ingushetiya
- Respublika Kalmykiya
- Respublika Kareliya
- Respublika Khakasiya
- Respublika Komi
- Respublika Mariy-El
- Respublika Mordoviya
- Respublika Sakha (Yakutiya)
- Respublika Severnaya Osetiya-Alaniya
- Respublika Tatarstan
- Respublika Tyva
- Rostovskaya Oblast'
- Ryazanskaya Oblast'
- Sakhalinskaya Oblast'
- Samarskaya Oblast'
- Sankt-Peterburg
- Saratovskaya Oblast'
- Smolenskaya Oblast'
- Stavropol'skiy Kray
- Sverdlovskaya Oblast'
- Tambovskaya Oblast'
- Taymyrskiy (Dolgano-Nenetskiy) Avtonomnyy Okrug
- Tomskaya Oblast'
- Tul'skaya Oblast'
- Tverskaya Oblast’
- Tyumenskaya Oblast'
- Udmurtskaya Respublika
- Ul’yanovskaya Oblast’
- Ust'-Ordynskiy Buryatskiy Avtonomnyy Okrug
- Vladimirskaya Oblast'
- Volgogradskaya Oblast'
- Vologodskaya Oblast'
- Voronezhskaya Oblast'
- Yamalo-Nenetskiy Avtonomnyy Okrug
- Yaroslavskaya Oblast'
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National Anthem of Russia
Neighbours of Russia
- Azerbaijan
- Belarus
- China
- Estonia
- Finland
- Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic
- Kazakhstan
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Mongolia
- North Korea
- Norway
- Poland
- Ukraine
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Russia description
Russia [ˈɹʌʃə] (help·info) (Russian: Россия, Rossiya), also the Russian Federation (Russian: Российская Федерация?·i, Rossiyskaya Federatsiya), is a transcontinental country extending over much of northern Eurasia. It is a semi-presidential republic comprising 83 federal subjects. Russia shares land borders with the following countries (counter-clockwise from northwest to southeast): Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania (Kaliningrad Oblast), Poland (Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and North Korea. It is also close to the U.S. state of Alaska, Sweden, Denmark, Turkey and Japan across relatively small stretches of water (the Bering Strait, the Baltic Sea, the Black Sea and La Pérouse Strait, respectively). At 17,075,400 square kilometers, Russia is by far the largest country in the world, covering more than an eighth of the Earth’s land area; with 142 million people, it is the ninth largest by population. It extends across the whole of northern Asia and 40% of Europe, spanning 11 time zones and incorporating a great range of environments and landforms. Russia has the world's greatest reserves of mineral and energy resources, and is considered an energy superpower. It has the world's largest forest reserves and its lakes contain approximately one-quarter of the world's unfrozen fresh water.
