Country Information
- Official name:
- Russian Federation
- Location:
- The country is located over much of northern Eurasia (Europe and Asia together).[
- Territory:
- At 17,075,400 square kilometres (6,592,800 sq mi), Russia is the largest country in the world, covering more than an eighth of the Earth’s land area. Russia shares land borders with the following countries (counterclockwise from northwest to southeast): Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania (via Kaliningrad Oblast), Poland (via Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
- Population:
- 146.9 million people
- Capital:
- Moscow (9 million people)
- Major cities and their populations:
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Saint-Petersburg 4.44 million people Novosibirsk 1.47 million people Nizhny Novgorod 1.45 million people Ekaterinburg 1.41 million people - Other cities with population over 1 million people:
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- Chelyabinsk
- Kazan
- Omsk
- Perm
- Rostov-on-Don
- Samara
- Ufa
- Volgograd
- Main languages:
- Russian (official), Ukrainian, Belorussian, Tartar, Armenian, etc. - in total over 100 languages
- Religions:
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- Christianity (Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant)
- Islam
- Judaism
- Buddhism
- Climate:
- Continental almost everywhere
- Average temperatures:
- In the temperate zone: from -9°C to -16°C in winter, from +13°C to +18°C in summer
- Monetary unit:
- Rouble
- Local timezone:
- From GMT+3 (Kaliningrad) to GMT+13 (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky)
