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Info about Russia
The Russian Federation is the largest of the 21 republics that make up the Commonwealth of Independent States. It occupies most of eastern Europe and north Asia, stretching from the Baltic Sea in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east, and from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Black Sea and the Caucasus in the south. It is bordered by Norway and Finland in the northwest; Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, and Lithuania in the west; Georgia and Azerbaijan in the southwest; and Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China, and North Korea along the southern border.
Capital
Moscow
- 10 672 000 people
all city from Russia
Country lead by
President: Vladimir Putin (2000)
Prime Minister: Mikhail Fradkov (2004)
Population
142,893,540 (growth rate: –0.4%); birth rate: 9.9/1000; infant mortality rate: 15.1/1000; life expectancy: 67.1; density per sq mi: 22
Land Area
6,562,078 sq mi (16,995,800 sq km); total area: 6,592,772 sq mi (17,075,200 sq km)
Monetary unit
Ruble
Language
Russian, others
Ethnicity
Russian 79.8%, Tatar 3.8%, Ukrainian 2%, Bashkir 1.2%, Chuvash 1.1%, other or unspecified 12.1% (2002)
Religion
Russian Orthodox 15%–20%, other Christian 2%, Islam 10%–15% (2006 est.; includes practicing worshippers only)
Transportation
Railways: total: 87,157 km (2002). Highways: total: 532,393 km; paved: 358,833 km; unpaved: 173,560 km (2000). Waterways: 95,900 km (total routes in general use) (Jan. 1994). Ports and harbors: Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinsky, Arkhangel'sk, Astrakhan', De-Kastri, Indigirskiy, Kaliningrad, Kandalaksha, Kazan', Khabarovsk, Kholmsk, Krasnoyarsk, Lazarev, Mago, Mezen', Moscow, Murmansk, Nakhodka, Nevel'sk, Novorossiysk, Onega, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Rostov, Shakhtersk, Saint Petersburg, Sochi, Taganrog, Tuapse, Uglegorsk, Vanino, Vladivostok, Volgograd, Vostochnyy, Vyborg. Airports: 2,743 (2002).
Internet tld
.ru
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