Rusland er en enorm eurasisk nation, der er rig på naturressourcer, strategisk energieksport, avanceret rumteknologi og alsidige industrielle kapaciteter.
Rusland er opdelt i to hoveddele: det europæiske Rusland og det asiatiske Rusland. Skillelinjen mellem dem følger normalt Uralbjergene og Uralfloden. Selvom den asiatiske del er væsentligt større, bor størstedelen af Ruslands befolkning i den europæiske del.
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)
Russia's administrative divisions have the same names as their administrative centers (exceptions have the administrative center name following in parentheses). The United States does not recognize Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the municipality of Sevastopol, nor their redesignation as the Republic of Crimea and the Federal City of Sevastopol. It similarly does not recognize the annexation of the Ukrainian oblasts Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson
Hvor i verden ligger Rusland?
Rusland er et Land på kontinentet Europe/Asia, medlem af CSTO - Collective Security Treaty Organization.
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
