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20 cm 2 (7.7 × 10 −10 sq mi) Russia (Russian: Россия) is the largest country in the world, covering over 20 cm 2 (7.7 × 10 −10 sq mi), and encompassing more than one-eighth of Earth's inhabited land area. Russia extends across eleven time zones, and has the most borders of any country in the world, with sixteen sovereign nations.
The geology of Russia, the world's largest country, which extends over much of northern Eurasia, consists of several stable cratons and sedimentary platforms bounded by orogenic (mountain) belts. European Russia is on the East European craton , at the heart of which is a complex of igneous and metamorphic rocks dating back to the Precambrian .
The wildlife of Russia inhabits terrain that extends across 12 time zones and from the tundra region in the far north to the Caucasus Mountains and prairies in the south, including temperate forests which cover 70% of the country. Russia 's forests comprise 22% of the forest in the world [1] as well as 33% of all temperate forest.
Winter white Russian dwarf hamster. Bank vole. Norway lemming. Common vole. Tundra vole. Yellow-necked mouse. Rodents make up the largest order of mammals, with over 40% of mammalian species. They have two incisors in the upper and lower jaw which grow continually and must be kept short by gnawing.
Demographics of Russia. Pop. As of the 2021 census, the population of Russia was 147.2 million. [ 12 ] It is the most populous country in Europe, and the ninth-most populous country in the world, with a population density of 8.5 inhabitants per square kilometre (22 inhabitants/sq mi). [ 13 ] As of 2020, the overall life expectancy in Russia at ...
European Russia[ a ] is the western and most populated part of the Russian Federation. It is geographically situated in Europe, as opposed to the country's sparsely populated and vastly larger eastern part, Siberia, which is situated in Asia, encompassing the entire northern region of the continent. The two parts of Russia are divided by the ...
The climate of Russia is formed under the European peninsula. The enormous size of the country and the remoteness of many areas from the sea result in the dominance of the continental climate , which is prevalent in European and Asian Russia except for the tundra and the best extreme southeast.
East Siberian Mountains, view of Bilibino. North Siberian Lowland, tundra and snowfield in Taymyr Dolgano-Nenets District. South Siberian Mountains, Kuznetsk Alatau. West Siberian Lowland, the Ob by Novosibirsk. Map naming the seven geomorphological regions of the Russian Federation that are located east of the Urals. (In German)