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Russia, Europe

This post was last updated by José of onez on Monday, 19 May 2025.

Moscow, capital city of Russia

Image of Moscow, capital city of Russia

Russia is a vast Eurasian nation abundant in natural resources, strategic energy exports, advanced space technology, and diverse industrial capabilities.
Russia in one word would be “Taiga,” meaning boreal forest.

Russia Flag

Flag of Russia

Russia armorial

armorial of Russia

Russia is a country of the Europe/Asia continent, member of CSTO - Collective Security Treaty Organization.

Easy learning about Russia

The capital city of Russia is Moscow.

Russia is located in Europe/Asia Continent
Member of CSTO - Collective Security Treaty Organization
OPEC+
Russia has a population of 145,440,500 inhabitants
within a total area of 17,100,000 Km2
(10,625,427 sq mi)
(2023 UN data)
Russia’s Global Peace Index (GPI) 156 (world rank position)
GPI scale of 3.13
This means, the closer to 1, the more peaceful the country is...
(2024 data from GPI)
Human Development Index (HDI) Russia HDI ranks in position nº 64 worldwide
HDI of 0.832 (0.4 to 1)
(2023 data from UNDP)
Russia’s passport allows visa-free entry to 116 countries
Russia passport ranks 44th 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
has a score of 532
ranks 44th worldwide
(2024 data from EPI)
Latitude & Longitude 60° 00' N, 100° 00' E
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Neighbouring countriesGeorgia, China, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Latvia.Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, Finland, Mongolia, Norway, Azerbaijan, North Korea.
Russia Climateranges 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 religionRussian Orthodox 15-,
Second most predominant religionMuslim 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

  1. Amur (Blagoveshchensk)
  2. Arkhangelsk
  3. Astrakhan
  4. Belgorod
  5. Bryansk
  6. Chelyabinsk
  7. Irkutsk
  8. Ivanovo
  9. Kaliningrad
  10. Kaluga
  11. Kemerovo
  12. Kirov
  13. Kostroma
  14. Kurgan
  15. Kursk
  16. Leningrad (Gatchina)
  17. Lipetsk
  18. Magadan
  19. Moscow
  20. Murmansk
  21. Nizhniy Novgorod
  22. Novgorod
  23. Novosibirsk
  24. Omsk
  25. Orenburg
  26. Orel
  27. Penza
  28. Pskov
  29. Rostov
  30. Ryazan
  31. Sakhalin (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk)
  32. Samara
  33. Saratov
  34. Smolensk
  35. Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg)
  36. Tambov
  37. Tomsk
  38. Tula
  39. Tver
  40. Tyumen
  41. Ulyanovsk
  42. Vladimir
  43. Volgograd
  44. Vologda
  45. Voronezh
  46. Yaroslavl

republics

  1. Adygeya (Maykop)
  2. Altay (Gorno-Altaysk)
  3. Bashkortostan (Ufa)
  4. Buryatiya (Ulan-Ude)
  5. Chechnya (Groznyy)
  6. Chuvashiya (Cheboksary)
  7. Dagestan (Makhachkala)
  8. Ingushetiya (Magas)
  9. Kabardino-Balkariya (Nal'chik)
  10. Kalmykiya (Elista)
  11. Karachayevo-Cherkesiya (Cherkessk)
  12. Kareliya (Petrozavodsk)
  13. Khakasiya (Abakan)
  14. Komi (Syktyvkar)
  15. Mariy-El (Yoshkar-Ola)
  16. Mordoviya (Saransk)
  17. North Ossetia (Vladikavkaz)
  18. Sakha [Yakutiya] (Yakutsk)
  19. Tatarstan (Kazan)
  20. Tyva (Kyzyl)
  21. Udmurtiya (Izhevsk)

autonomous okrugs

  1. Chukotka (Anadyr')
  2. Khanty-Mansi-Yugra (Khanty-Mansiysk)
  3. Nenets (Nar'yan-Mar)
  4. Yamalo-Nenets (Salekhard)

krays

  1. Altay (Barnaul)
  2. Kamchatka (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy)
  3. Khabarovsk
  4. Krasnodar
  5. Krasnoyarsk
  6. Perm
  7. Primorskiy [Maritime] (Vladivostok)
  8. Stavropol
  9. Zabaykalsk [Transbaikal] (Chita)

federal cities

  1. Moscow [Moskva]
  2. Saint Petersburg [Sankt-Peterburg]

autonomous oblast

  1. 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

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