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General map of Russia without occupied Ukrainian territories, showing Southern Russia in color (the Southern Federal District in blue and the North Caucasian Federal District in red). Southern Russia or the South of Russia (Russian: Юг России, IPA: [juk rɐˈsʲiɪ]) is a colloquial term for the southernmost geographic portion of ...
English: Map of the Russia highlighting the general area of Southern Russia, showing the Southern Federal District in blue and the North Caucasian Federal District in Red Date 30 January 2015
The South Caucasus, also known as Transcaucasia or the Transcaucasus, is a geographical region on the border of Eastern Europe and West Asia, straddling the southern Caucasus Mountains. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The South Caucasus roughly corresponds to modern Armenia , Georgia , and Azerbaijan , which are sometimes collectively known as the Caucasian States .
The two Federal Districts are collectively referred to as "Southern Russia". The South Caucasus borders the Greater Caucasus range and Southern Russia to its north, the Black Sea and Turkey to its west, the Caspian Sea to its east, and Iran to its south. It contains the Lesser Caucasus mountain range and surrounding lowlands.
This is a list of articles holding galleries of maps of present-day countries and dependencies. The list includes all countries listed in the List of countries , the French overseas departments, the Spanish and Portuguese overseas regions and inhabited overseas dependencies.
Modern borders of Russia with the years that the corresponding portions of the border have continuously belonged to Russia since Typical border marker of Russia. Russia, the largest country in the world by area, has international land borders with fourteen sovereign states [1] as well as two narrow maritime boundaries with the United States and Japan.
This is a list of cities and towns in Russia. According to the data of 2010 Russian Census , there are 1,117 cities and towns in Russia. After the Census, Innopolis , a town in the Republic of Tatarstan , was established in 2012 and granted town status in 2015.
To simplify maintaining the table, numbers of divisions are only specified where a country has around thirty or fewer instances; for example, as of 2010, the twelve qarqe (counties) of Albania. For numbers greater than thirty, the number rounded down to the nearest ten (or, in the case of thousands, the nearest hundred) is given, suffixed by a ...