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Forty of Russia's rivers longer than 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) are east of the Ural Mountains, including the three major rivers that drain Siberia as they flow northward to the Arctic Ocean: the Irtysh-Ob system (totaling 5,380 kilometres or 3,340 miles), the Yenisey (5,075 kilometres or 3,153 miles), and the Lena (4,294 kilometres or 2,668 ...
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.
As a continent, Europe's total geographical area is about 10 million square kilometres. [2] Transcontinental countries are ranked according to the size of their European part only, excluding Greece due to the not clearly defined boundaries of its islands between Europe and Asia. Inland water is included in area numbers.
The Russian Federation, commonly known as Russia, is the most extensive country in the world, covering 17,075,400 square kilometres (6,592,800 sq mi), more than an eighth of the Earth's land area. [1]
Ukraine said on Monday it was holding 1,000 square kilometers (386 square miles) of Russian territory, a week after the surprise cross-border assault that left the Kremlin scrambling and saw Kyiv ...
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said his troops had taken control of 547 square kilometres (211 square miles) of territory this year in what he called Russia's "new regions," a reference to ...
Russia's most visited and popular landmarks include Red Square, the Peterhof Palace, the Kazan Kremlin, the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius and Lake Baikal. [ 472 ] Moscow, the nation's cosmopolitan capital and historic core, is a bustling modern megacity ; it retains classical and Soviet-era architecture while boasting high art, world class ...
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian military chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said on Monday that some 386 square miles (1,000 square kilometers) of Russian territory were now under Ukrainian control.