Ryssland är en vidsträckt eurasisk nation med rika naturresurser, strategisk energiexport, avancerad rymdteknik och mångsidig industriell kapacitet.
Ryssland är uppdelat i två huvuddelar: europeiska Ryssland och asiatiska Ryssland. Gränsen som skiljer dem åt följer vanligtvis Uralbergen och floden Ural. Trots att den asiatiska sidan är betydligt större, bor majoriteten av Rysslands befolkning i den europeiska delen.
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Russia är ett Land Europe/Asia kontinenten, medlem av CSTO - Collective Security Treaty Organization.
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
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
