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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 .
Russia, [b] or the Russian Federation, [c] is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the largest country in the world by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing land borders with fourteen countries. [d] It is the world's ninth-most populous country and Europe's most populous country. Russia is a highly urbanised ...
A topographic map of the United States. The United States is the world's third-largest country by total area behind Russia and Canada. [d] [175] [176] The 48 contiguous states and the District of Columbia occupy a combined area of 3,119,885 square miles (8,080,470 km 2).
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.
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.
The term "United States," when used in the geographic sense, refers to the contiguous United States (sometimes referred to as the Lower 48, including the District of Columbia not as a state), Alaska, Hawaii, the five insular territories of Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and minor outlying possessions. [1]
Satellite image of Bering Strait. Cape Dezhnev, Russia, is on the left, the two Diomede Islands are in the middle, and Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, is on the right. The Bering Strait is about 82 kilometers (51 mi) wide at its narrowest point, between Cape Dezhnev, Chukchi Peninsula, Russia, the easternmost point (169° 39' W) of the Asian continent and Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, United ...
South Korea: 238 km (148 mi) Russia: 19 km (12 mi) South Korea: 238 148 1 1 North Korea: 238 km (148 mi) Kosovo [c] 701 436 4 4 Albania: 112 km (70 mi) Montenegro: 79 km (49 mi) North Macedonia: 159 km (99 mi) Serbia: 352 km (219 mi) Kuwait: 462 287 2 2 Iraq: 240 km (150 mi) Saudi Arabia: 222 km (138 mi) Kyrgyzstan