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Russia (Russian: Россия) is the largest country in the world, covering over 17,125,191 km 2 (6,612,073 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 .
As of 2019, Russia has the world's fifth-largest road network, with over 1.5 million km of roads, [405] although its road density is among the world's lowest, in part to its vast land area. [406] Russia's inland waterways are the longest in the world, totaling 102,000 km (63,380 mi). [407]
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. This list includes entries that are not limited to those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which covers sovereign states and dependent territories.
According to World Atlas, Russia is the biggest country in the world, followed by Canada and the U.S. in total area. ... has a total surface area of 17.1 million square kilometers – Russia ...
[7] [8] Since China's transition to a socialist market economy through controlled privatisation and deregulation, [9] [10] the country has seen its ranking increase from ninth in 1978, to second in 2010; China's economic growth accelerated during this period and its share of global nominal GDP surged from 2% in 1980 to 18% in 2021. [8] [1] [11]
Western countries imposed sweeping sanctions on Russia in the wake of its 2022 invasion of Ukraine, mostly designed to cut off the oil and gas exports crucial to its economy.
Population density (people per km 2) by country. This is a list of countries and dependencies ranked by population density, sorted by inhabitants per square kilometre or square mile. The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1.
Russia’s $2.2 trillion economy had until recently shown remarkable endurance during the war, and Putin has praised top economic officials and businesses for circumventing the most stringent ...