Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Modern borders of Russia with the years that the corresponding portions of the border have continuously belonged to Russia since Typical border marker of Russia. Russia, the largest country in the world by area, has international land borders with fourteen sovereign states [1] as well as two narrow maritime boundaries with the United States and Japan.
A geography of Russia and its neighbors (Guilford Press, 2011) Catchpole, Brian. A map history of Russia (1983) Chew, Allen F. An Atlas of Russian History: Eleven Centuries of Changing Borders (2nd ed. 1967) Gilbert, Martin. Routledge Atlas of Russian History (4th ed. 2007) excerpt and text search
Russia, [b] or the Russian Federation, [c] is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the largest country in the world by land area, and extends across eleven time zones; sharing land borders with fourteen countries. [d] Russia is the most populous country in Europe and the ninth-most populous country in the world.
Also included is the number of unique sovereign states [a] that a country or territory shares as neighbors. If the number is higher due to multiple dependencies or unrecognized states bordering the state, the larger number is shown in brackets. Footnotes are provided to provide clarity regarding the status of certain countries and territories.
Area of Russia: 17,075,400 km 2 (6,592,800 sq mi) – 1st largest country; Atlas of Russia; Mercator projection distorts Russia's appearance from crescent-like shape (as seen on a globe) into a fish-like or bear-like outline; also making the uninhabited area of Russia (e.g. food-less cold tundra and taiga) look 3-4 times bigger than it already is.
In April 2010, the Georgian parliament's foreign affairs committee asked the legislative bodies of 31 countries to declare Abkhazia and South Ossetia as territories under Russian occupation and to recognize the massive displacement of civilians from those regions by Russia as amounting to ethnic cleansing. [30]
There is a theory that the real reason why Chechens and Ingush were deported was the desire of Russia to attack Turkey, an anti-communist country, as Chechens and Ingush could impede such plans. [22] In 2004, the European Parliament recognized the deportation of Chechens and Ingush as an act of genocide. [35]
The Chinese–Russian border or the Sino-Russian border is the international border between China and Russia.After the final demarcation carried out in the early 2000s, it measures 4,209.3 kilometres (2,615.5 mi), [3] and is the world's sixth-longest international border.