Russia
Eastern EuropeEurope
The largest country on Earth, stretching across eleven time zones. You will find Russia in Eastern Europe. The capital is Moscow. About 144 million people live in the country.
- Capital
- Moscow
- People
- 144 million
- Size
- 17,000,000 km²
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Russia covers more than a tenth of all the land on Earth.
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The Trans-Siberian Railway, about 9,300 kilometres from Moscow to Vladivostok, is the longest railway line in the world.
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Russia lies in both Europe and Asia. The Ural mountains mark the border between the two.
Compare with
Size
Russia17,000,000 km²
United Kingdom240,000 km²You could fit the United Kingdom into Russia about 70 times.
People
Russia144 millionUnited Kingdom67 millionAbout 2.2 times as many people live in Russia as in the United Kingdom.
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- Moscow
- Saint Petersburg
- Novosibirsk
- Yekaterinburg
- Nizhny Novgorod
- Samara
- Omsk
- Kazan
- Chelyabinsk
- Rostov-on-Don
- Ufa
- Perm
- Volgograd
- Krasnoyarsk
- Voronezh
- Saratov
- Tolyatti
- Krasnodar
- Ulyanovsk
- Izhevsk
- Yaroslavl
- Barnaul
- Vladivostok
- Irkutsk
- Khabarovsk
- Makhachkala
- Orenburg
- Novokuznetsk
- Tomsk
- Ryazan
- Tyumen
- Lipetsk
- Penza
- Astrakhan
- Tula
- Kemerovo
- Naberezhnye Chelny
- Kirov
- Cheboksary
- Kaliningrad
- Bryansk
- Ivanovo
- Magnitogorsk
- Kursk
- Tver
- Surgut
- Nizhny Tagil
- Vladikavkaz
- Stavropol
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Neighbours
14 countries border Russia.
Azerbaijan
Belarus
China
Estonia
Finland
Georgia
Kazakhstan
Latvia
Lithuania
Mongolia
North Korea
Norway
Poland
Ukraine
Czechia
Hungary
Moldova
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