Russia, Europe
This post was last updated by José of onez on Sunday, 27 April 2025.

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Russia is a country of the Europe/Asia continent, member of CSTO - Collective Security Treaty Organization.
Easy learning about Russia | |
Russia is located in | Europe/Asia Continent |
Member of | CSTO - Collective Security Treaty Organization OPEC+ |
Russia has a population of | 145,440,500 inhabitants (2023 UN data) Inhabitants of Russia are called Russians |
The country’s total area is | 17,100,000 Km2 ( 10,625,427 sq mi) |
Global Peace Index Rank | 156 |
Global Peace Index Score | 3 |
Russia’s passport | allows visa-free entry to 116 countries Russia passport ranks in position nº 44 in the world (2025 HP Index data) |
Russia GDP per capita is | $14,258 USD (2025 estimated data from IMF) |
Russia ’s LGBTI legal status | Same-sex sexual acts are Legal (2025 ILGA data) |
Russia EPI (English Proficiency Index) | is classified as Moderate proficiency in English has a score of 532 ranks 44th worldwide (2024 data from EPI) |
Latitude & Longitude | 60° 00' N, 100° 00' E Open in Google Maps |
Russia Capital city | Moscow |
Neighbouring countries | Georgia, China, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Latvia.Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, Finland, Mongolia, Norway, Azerbaijan, North Korea. |
Russia Climate | ranges from steppes in the south through humid continental in much of European Russia; subarctic in Siberia to tundra climate in the polar north; winters vary from cool along Black Sea coast to frigid in Siberia; summers vary from warm in the steppes to cool along Arctic coast |
Most predominant religion | Russian Orthodox 15-, |
Second most predominant religion | Muslim 10- |
Currency name & code | Ruble (RUB) |
Internet ccTLD | .ru |
Russia calling code | +7 |
Russia administrative divisions
46 provinces (oblasti), 21 republics (respubliki), 4 autonomous okrugs (avtonomnyye okrugi), 9 krays (kraya), 2 federal cities (goroda), and 1 autonomous oblast (avtonomnaya oblast')oblasts
- Amur (Blagoveshchensk)
- Arkhangelsk
- Astrakhan
- Belgorod
- Bryansk
- Chelyabinsk
- Irkutsk
- Ivanovo
- Kaliningrad
- Kaluga
- Kemerovo
- Kirov
- Kostroma
- Kurgan
- Kursk
- Leningrad (Gatchina)
- Lipetsk
- Magadan
- Moscow
- Murmansk
- Nizhniy Novgorod
- Novgorod
- Novosibirsk
- Omsk
- Orenburg
- Orel
- Penza
- Pskov
- Rostov
- Ryazan
- Sakhalin (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk)
- Samara
- Saratov
- Smolensk
- Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg)
- Tambov
- Tomsk
- Tula
- Tver
- Tyumen
- Ulyanovsk
- Vladimir
- Volgograd
- Vologda
- Voronezh
- Yaroslavl
republics
- Adygeya (Maykop)
- Altay (Gorno-Altaysk)
- Bashkortostan (Ufa)
- Buryatiya (Ulan-Ude)
- Chechnya (Groznyy)
- Chuvashiya (Cheboksary)
- Dagestan (Makhachkala)
- Ingushetiya (Magas)
- Kabardino-Balkariya (Nal'chik)
- Kalmykiya (Elista)
- Karachayevo-Cherkesiya (Cherkessk)
- Kareliya (Petrozavodsk)
- Khakasiya (Abakan)
- Komi (Syktyvkar)
- Mariy-El (Yoshkar-Ola)
- Mordoviya (Saransk)
- North Ossetia (Vladikavkaz)
- Sakha [Yakutiya] (Yakutsk)
- Tatarstan (Kazan)
- Tyva (Kyzyl)
- Udmurtiya (Izhevsk)
autonomous okrugs
- Chukotka (Anadyr')
- Khanty-Mansi-Yugra (Khanty-Mansiysk)
- Nenets (Nar'yan-Mar)
- Yamalo-Nenets (Salekhard)
krays
- Altay (Barnaul)
- Kamchatka (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy)
- Khabarovsk
- Krasnodar
- Krasnoyarsk
- Perm
- Primorskiy [Maritime] (Vladivostok)
- Stavropol
- Zabaykalsk [Transbaikal] (Chita)
federal cities
- Moscow [Moskva]
- Saint Petersburg [Sankt-Peterburg]
autonomous oblast
- Yevreyskaya [Jewish] (Birobidzhan)
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