The Largest Country In The World


Russia (Russian: ??????, romanized: Rossiya, [r?'s?ij?]), or the Russian Federation,[b] is a country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world by area, extends across eleven time zones, and shares land boundaries with fourteen countries.[c] It is the world's ninth-most populous country and Europe's most populous country. The country's capital and largest city is Moscow. Saint Petersburg is Russia's cultural centre and second-largest city. Other major urban areas in the country include Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Chelyabinsk, Krasnoyarsk, and Kazan. into the Russian Empire, which remains the third-largest empire in history. However, with the Russian Revolution in 1917, Russia's monarchic rule was abolished and eventually replaced by the Russian SFSR—the world's first constitutionally socialist state. Following the Russian Civil War, the Russian SFSR established the Soviet Union with three other Soviet republics, within which it was the largest and principal constituent. With the onset of the Cold War, it competed with the United States for global ideological influence. In 1991, the Russian SFSR emerged from the dissolution of the Soviet Union as the independent Russian Federation. A new constitution was adopted, which established a federal semi-presidential system. Since the turn of the century, Russia's political system has been dominated by Vladimir Putin. Russia's vast landmass stretches over the easternmost part of Europe and the northernmost part of Asia.[216] It spans the northernmost edge of Eurasia; and has the world's fourth-longest coastline, of over 37,653 km (23,396 mi).[e][218] Russia lies between latitudes 41° and 82° N, and longitudes 19° E and 169° W, extending some 9,000 km (5,600 mi) east to west, and 2,500 to 4,000 km (1,600 to 2,500 mi) north to south.[219] Russia, by landmass, is larger than three continents,[f] and has the same surface area as Pluto.[220] Russia has nine major mountain ranges, and they are found along the southernmost regions, which share a significant portion of the Caucasus Mountains (containing Mount Elbrus, which at 5,642 m (18,510 ft) is the highest peak in Russia and Europe);[10] the Altai and Sayan Mountains in Siberia; and in the East Siberian Mountains and the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East (containing Klyuchevskaya Sopka, which at 4,750 m (15,584 ft) is the highest active volcano in Eurasia).[221][222] The Ural Mountains, running north to south through the country's west, are rich in mineral resources, and form the traditional boundary between Europe and Asia.[223] The lowest point in Russia and Europe, is situated at the head of the Caspian Sea, where the Caspian Depression reaches some 29 metres (95.1 ft) below sea level.[224] Russia, as one of the world's only three countries bordering three oceans,[216] has links with a great number of seas.[g][225] Its major islands and archipelagos include Novaya Zemlya, Franz Josef Land, Severnaya Zemlya, the New Siberian Islands, Wrangel Island, the Kuril Islands (four of which are disputed with Japan), and Sakhalin.[226][227] The Diomede Islands, administered by Russia and the United States, are just 3.8 km (2.4 mi) apart;[228] and Kunashir Island of the Kuril Islands is merely 20 km (12.4 mi) from Hokkaido, Japan.[2] Russia, home of over 100,000 rivers,[216] has one of the world's largest surface water resources, with its lakes containing approximately one-quarter of the world's liquid fresh water.[222] Lake Baikal, the largest and most prominent among Russia's fresh water bodies, is the world's deepest, purest, oldest and most capacious fresh water lake, containing over one-fifth of the world's fresh surface water.[229] Ladoga and Onega in northwestern Russia are two of the largest lakes in Europe.[216] Russia is second only to Brazil by total renewable water resources.[230] The Volga in western Russia, widely regarded as Russia's national river, is the longest river in Europe; and forms the Volga Delta, the largest river delta in the continent.[231] The Siberian rivers of Ob, Yenisey, Lena, and Amur are among the world's longest rivers.  








Abakan        Russia


Alushta        Russia


Anapa        Russia


Arkhangelsk        Russia


Astrakhan        Russia






Balashikha        Russia


Baltiysk        Russia


Barnaul        Russia


Belgorod        Russia


Blagoveshchensk        Russia


Bryansk        Russia






Cheboksary        Russia


Chelyabinsk        Russia


Cherepovets        Russia


Chita        Russia






Dnipropetrovsk        Russia






Gelendzhik        Russia


Grozny        Russia






Irkutsk        Russia


Ivanovo        Russia


Izhevsk        Russia






Kaliningrad        Russia


Kaluga        Russia


Kazan        Russia


Kemerovo        Russia


Khabarovsk        Russia


Khimki        Russia


Khmelnytskyi        Russia


Kirov        Russia


Kirovsk        Russia


Kostroma        Russia


Krasnodar        Russia


Krasnogorsk        Russia


Krasnoyarsk        Russia


Kursk        Russia






Lipetsk        Russia






Magadan        Russia


Magnitogorsk        Russia


Makhachkala        Russia


Mirny        Russia


Moscow        Russia


Murmansk        Russia


Mytishchi        Russia






Naberezhnye Chelny        Russia


Nalchik        Russia


Nikolayevsk-on-Amur        Russia


Nizhnekamsk        Russia


Nizhnevartovsk        Russia


Nizhny Novgorod        Russia


Nizhny Tagil        Russia


Novokuznetsk        Russia


Novorossiysk        Russia


Novosibirsk        Russia






Omsk        Russia


Orenburg        Russia


Oryol        Russia






Penza        Russia


Perm        Russia


Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky        Russia


Petrozavodsk        Russia


Pevek        Russia


Podolsk        Russia






Rostov-On-Don        Russia


Ryazan        Russia






Samara        Russia


Saransk        Russia


Saratov        Russia


Sergiev Posad        Russia


Smolensk        Russia


Sochi        Russia


Stavropol        Russia


St Petersburg        Russia


Surgut        Russia


Syktyvkar        Russia






Tambov        Russia


Tolyatti        Russia


Tula        Russia


Tyumen        Russia


Tyver        Russia






Ufa        Russia


Ulan Ude        Russia


Ulyanovsk        Russia






Veliky Novgorod        Russia


Viborg        Russia


Vladikavkaz        Russia


Vladimir        Russia


Vladivostok        Russia


Volgograd        Russia


Vologda        Russia


Volzhsky        Russia


Voronezh        Russia






Yakutsk        Russia


Yaroslavl        Russia


Yekaterinburg        Russia


Yoshkar-Ola        Russia


Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk        Russia