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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 .
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.
This is a list of national capitals, ordered according to total area. Capitals of dependent territories and disputed territories are marked in italics . The area of the capital city only includes the area occupied by the city and not the wider urban/metropolitan district or administrative division created solely for the city.
Russia's inland waterways are the world's longest, totaling 102,000 km (63,380 mi). [394] Russia has over 900 airports, [395] ranking seventh in the world, of which the busiest is Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow. Russia's largest port is the Port of Novorossiysk in Krasnodar Krai along the Black Sea. [396]
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.
Russia: 431,892 km 2: 992,202 [1] 10th 2.30/km 2: 45 California: Sacramento: Los Angeles United States: 423,970 km 2: 39,538,223 [5] 3rd 93.2/km 2: 46 Komi: Syktyvkar Russia: 416,774 km 2: 725,969 [1] 11th 1.74/km 2: 47 Arkhangelsk Oblast: Arkhangelsk Russia: 413,103 km 2 [note 16] 964,131 [1] 12th 2.33/km 2: 48 Newfoundland and Labrador: St ...
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A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.