The largest country on Earth, spanning eleven time zones and about an eighth of all inhabited land.
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Russia
Russian Federation ยท ะ ะพััะธั
Europe
ยท Eastern Europe
0Population
17.1Mkmยฒ of land
$11.77KGDP / person
MoscowCapital
- ISO codes
- RU ยท RUS
- Density
- 8 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Russian
- Currency
- Russian ruble (RUB)
- Dial code
- +7
- Internet domain
- .ru
- Time zones
- 26
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 58.2490ยฐ N, 44.6860ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Russian
- UN region
- Eastern Europe
- Economy
- Emerging region: BRIC
- Income group
- Upper middle income
- Total GDP
- $1.7T
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 14
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By the numbers
How Russia stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
9th
of 242 ยท 1.88% of world population
Land area
1st
of 242 ยท 11.40% of world land
GDP per person
95th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
213th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Russia
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 144,373,535 people, the 9th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 1.88 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 17,098,242 kmยฒ, making it the 1st largest country here - about 5.2 times the size of India.
Population density is about 8 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Moscow, at 55.75ยฐ N, 37.61ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 10,452,000.
Shares land borders with 14 countries: Azerbaijan, Belarus, China, Estonia and Finland (and 9 more).
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Spans 26 time zones, from Asia/Anadyr to Europe/Volgograd.
The currency is the Russian ruble (RUB, symbol โฝ).
The official language is Russian.
Local time
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Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Moscow
Moskva
55.7541ยฐ N, 37.6136ยฐ E
10.45M
2
St. Petersburg
City of St. Petersburg
59.9410ยฐ N, 30.3141ยฐ E
4.55M
3
Novosibirsk
Novosibirsk
55.0319ยฐ N, 82.9581ยฐ E
1.39M
4
Yekaterinburg
Sverdlovsk
56.8520ยฐ N, 60.5980ยฐ E
1.31M
5
Nizhny Novgorod
Nizhegorod
56.3350ยฐ N, 43.9981ยฐ E
1.28M
6
Samara
Samara
53.1970ยฐ N, 50.1493ยฐ E
1.14M
7
Omsk
Omsk
54.9919ยฐ N, 73.3980ยฐ E
1.14M
8
Kazan
Tatarstan
55.7519ยฐ N, 49.1244ยฐ E
1.12M
9
Chelyabinsk
Chelyabinsk
55.1569ยฐ N, 61.4367ยฐ E
1.09M
10
Rostov
Rostov
47.2366ยฐ N, 39.7107ยฐ E
1.05M
๐ Peaks
Mount Elbrus
5,642 m
๐งญ Worth the trip
St Petersburg
City
For a few weeks each summer the sun barely sets and the whole city stays out through the white nights.
Trans-Siberian Railway
Adventure
The longest railway line in the world - 9,289 km, eight time zones and about a week from Moscow to the Pacific.
Land neighbours
14 countries share a border with Russia.
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Azerbaijan
10.02M people
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Belarus
9.47M people
๐จ๐ณ
China
1.4B people
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Estonia
1.33M people
๐ซ๐ฎ
Finland
5.52M people
๐ฌ๐ช
Georgia
3.72M people
๐ฐ๐ฟ
Kazakhstan
18.51M people
๐ฑ๐ป
Latvia
1.91M people
๐ฑ๐น
Lithuania
2.79M people
๐ฒ๐ณ
Mongolia
3.23M people
๐ฐ๐ต
North Korea
25.67M people
๐ณ๐ด
Norway
5.35M people
๐ต๐ฑ
Poland
37.97M people
๐บ๐ฆ
Ukraine
44.39M people