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The narrowest distance between mainland Russia and mainland Alaska is approximately 55 miles. However, in the body of water between Alaska and Russia, known as the Bering Strait, there lies two small islands known as Big Diomede and Little Diomede.
The closest distance between mainland Alaska and mainland Russia is approximately 53 miles (85 kilometers) across the Bering Strait. This narrow body of water separates peninsulas of the two countries, connecting the Bering Sea to the Arctic Ocean.
Covering almost 6.6 million square miles, Russia extends towards Alaska on the eastern side in the Kamchatka Krai region. The Kamchatka Peninsula borders the Ocean and is the nearest point to Alaska. The zone is characterized by mountains, tundra, cliffs, and forests.
The Bering Strait is about 82 kilometers (51 mi) wide at its narrowest point, between Cape Dezhnev, Chukchi Peninsula, Russia, the easternmost point (169° 39' W) of the Asian continent and Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, United States, the westernmost point (168° 05' W) of the North American continent. Its deepest point is only 90 m (300 ft) in ...
The closest distance between mainland Alaska and mainland Russia is just 55 miles. However, the distance is only 2.5 miles between Russia’s Big Diomede Island and the U.S.’s Little Diomede Island.
The straight distance between Russia and Alaska is 82.5 kilometers (51.3 mi). If building bridges and using the Diomede Islands , the straight distance over water for the three parts would be 36.0 km (22.4 mi), 3.8 km (2.4 mi) and 36.8 km (22.9 mi), in total 76.6 km (47.6 mi).
That sum, amounting to just $138 million in today’s dollars, brought to an end Russia’s 125-year odyssey in Alaska and its expansion across the treacherous Bering Sea, which at one point extended...
You can't actually see Russia from Alaska when standing on the mainland; however, there are two islands sitting in the middle of the Bering Sea that shorten the distance between the...
Russia and Alaska are divided by the Bering Strait, which is about 55 miles at its narrowest point. In the middle of the Bering Strait are two small, sparsely populated islands: Big Diomede,...
The distance between the islands is 4,160 m. So yes, you can catch a glimpse of Russia with your feet firmly on the land of the brave (which once was Russian territory, anyway)!