About Russia

The map shows the Russian Federationwhich came into existence on 25 December 1991after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The countrycommonly known as Russiais located partly in eastern Europe and partly in northern Asiabordering the Arctic Ocean in the north.
Russian Federation is the new name of the country of what is left of the Soviet Unionafter the breakaway of some of its republics.

Russia is bordered in the west by NorwayFinlandEstoniaLatviaLithuania and Poland (both with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast)BelarusUkraineGeorgiaand Azerbaijan. Russia borders KazakhstanChinaMongoliaand North Korea in the south. Additionallythe country shares maritime borders with SwedenJapan (by the Sea of Okhotsk) and the U.S. state of Alaska across the Bering Strait.

With an area of 17,098,242 km²the country is somewhat larger than twice the size of the contiguous United States; the Russian Federation is still the largest country in the worldcovering more than 11% of Earth's inhabited areas.
 

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Geography of Russia 

Vast regions of the country were uninhabited or uninhabitable. Russia is a country with a very low population density (8.5 people/km²compared to Germany with 226 people/km² USA about 33 people/km²). But still Russia has a population of 147 million people (in 2022).

Moscow is the capital and center of political power as well as a major cultural and commercial centerwhile St. Petersburg is considered the cultural capital of Russia and is known as the second-largest city in the country.

Everything geographical of the Russian Federation is gigantic.

Measured from its western borders in Kaliningrad Oblast to the tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula on the Bering Strait in Russia's Far Eastit is about 7500 km (4700 mi).

Russia has 11 of the world's 24 time zones21 national republics41 ethnic groups with more than 100,000 inhabitantsseven of them with more than 1 million.

Russia has 37,653 km of coastline22,400 km of borders andas mentioned aboveis the largest country in the world.

The Russian Landscape
The landscapes of Russia offer a variety of different regions. To the west of the Ural Mountainswhich separate the Asian from the European part of the countrylies the European Plain. Russia's largest cities are within itwith Moscow at the center of a network of roads and railway linesconnecting the capital with the rest of the country.

The Great Caucasus Mountains in the southwestbetween the southern Black Sea and the west coast of the Caspian Seaform the border between Russia and Georgia. Within the Caucasus Mountains is Mount Elbrus (Gora Elbrus)the highest mountain in Europe at 5,642 meters and also the highest peak in Russia.

East of the Ural Mountains lies the West Siberian Plain. The world's largest area of continuous lowlands is bounded by the Kara Sea in the northby the Kazakh Uplands and the Altai Mountains in the south and by the Yenisey River valley and the Central Siberian Plateau in the east. To the east of the Yenisey RiverRussia becomes mountainouswith the Stanovoy Mountainsthe Yablonov Mountainsthe Verkhoyansk Mountainsthe Sikhote-Alin Mountainsthe Kolyma Mountains and the mountainous Kamchatka Peninsula with its coast on the Bering Sea and the Sea of Okhotsk.