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Coat of arms of Siberia, which was a part of the Russian Imperial Coat of Arms until 1917 Map of the Siberian Route in the 18th century (green) and the early 19th century (red) By the mid-17th century, Russia had established areas of control that extended to the Pacific Ocean. Some 230,000 Russians had settled in Siberia by 1709. [40]
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.
It is situated in southern Siberia, Russia between the federal subjects of Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Republic of Buryatia to the southeast. At 31,722 km 2 (12,248 sq mi)—slightly larger than Belgium —Lake Baikal is the world's seventh-largest lake by surface area, [ 5 ] as well as the second largest lake in Eurasia after the ...
P:SIBERIA. Siberia (/ saɪˈbɪəriə / sy-BEER-ee-ə; Russian: Сибирь, romanized:Sibir', IPA: [sʲɪˈbʲirʲ] ⓘ) is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It has formed a part of the sovereign territory of Russia and its predecessor states ...
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)
Western Siberian plain on a satellite map of North Asia Map of the West Siberian Plain showing its subdivisions. The West Siberian Plain (Russian: Западно-Сибирская равнина, romanized: Zapadno-Sibirskaya ravnina) is a large plain that occupies the western portion of Siberia, between the Ural Mountains in the west and the Yenisei River in the east, and the Altai Mountains ...
A topographic map of Russia with regions labeled. 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 ...
The East Siberian Mountains or East Siberian Highlands (Russian: Восточно-Сибирское нагорье, romanized: Vostochno-Sibirskoye Nagorye) are one of the largest mountain systems of the Russian Federation. They are located between the Central Yakutian Lowland and the Bering Strait in Northeast Siberia. The area of the East ...