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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.
Set of Russian customary units of measurement based on body proportions. Historical Russian units of measurement were standardized and used in the Russian Empire and after the Russian Revolution , but were abandoned after 21 July 1925, when the Soviet Union adopted the metric system .
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 .
Defined as 149 597 870 700 m. [16] Approximately the distance between the Earth and Sun. light-year ly ≈ 9 460 730 472 580.8 km. The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one Julian year. [17] parsec pc ≈ 30 856 775 814 671.9 km or about 3.261 56 ly; Hubble length 14.4 billion light-years or 4.55 gigaparsecs
A chart of the Russian political system. Russia, by constitution, is a symmetric federal republic with a semi-presidential system, wherein the president is the head of state, [260] and the prime minister is the head of government. [9] It is structured as a multi-party representative democracy, with the federal government composed of three ...
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.
Since Russia sent armoured forces into Ukraine in February 2022, the war has largely been a story of grinding artillery and drone strikes along a heavily fortified 1,000-km (620-mile) front ...
Oblasts are typically areas that are predominantly populated by ethnic Russians and native Russian language speakers, and are mostly located in European Russia. The largest oblast by geographic size is Tyumen Oblast at 1,435,200 km 2 (excluding autonomous okrugs Irkutsk Oblast is the largest at 767,900 km 2 ) and the smallest is Kaliningrad ...