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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; Henry, Laura A. Red to green: environmental activism in post-Soviet Russia (2010) Kaiser, Robert J. The Geography of Nationalism in Russia and the USSR (1994). Medvedev, Andrei.
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.
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.
How big is Russia compared with the USA? The U.S. is approximately half the size of Russia when compared by their landmasses. According to NationMaster.com, Russia is 1.8 times larger than America.
The Russian president is the ultimate decision maker on the use of Russian nuclear weapons. The so-called nuclear briefcase, or "Cheget" (named after Mount Cheget in the Caucasus Mountains), is ...
Dymaxion map of the world with the 30 largest countries and territories by area. This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies, ranked by total area, including land and water.
In 2021, before Russian forces invaded, Moscow produced 56 Kh-101 cruise missiles a year. By last year, it had manufactured 460 cruise missiles, according to the report.
Russian is the fifth-most used language on the Internet, [101] and is one of two official languages aboard the International Space Station, [102] as well as one of the six official languages of the United Nations. [100] Russia is a multilingual nation; approximately 100–150 minority languages are spoken across the country.