Russia
Russia is in Eastern Europe, with its capital at Moscow and an area of about 17,098,242 km². Explore its flag, anthem, population, GDP ranking, government, natural resources, provinces and major cities on an interactive 3D globe.
- Official name
- Russian Federation
- Capital
- Moscow
- Region
- Europe · Eastern Europe
- Area
- 17,098,242 km²
- Languages
- Russian
- Currencies
- Russian ruble (RUB)
- Government
- Federal semi-presidential republic
- Natural resources
- wide natural-resource base including major deposits of oil, natural gas, coal, and many strategic minerals, bauxite, reserves of rare earth elements, timber
- Industries
- complete range of mining and extractive industries producing coal, oil, gas, chemicals, and metals; all forms of machine building from rolling mills to high-performance aircraft and space vehicles; defense industries (including radar, missile production, advanced electronic components), shipbuilding; road and rail transportation equipment; communications equipment; agricultural machinery, tractors, and construction equipment; electric power generating and transmitting equipment; medical and scientific instruments; consumer durables, textiles, foodstuffs, handicrafts
- Main exports
- crude petroleum, refined petroleum, natural gas, coal, fertilizers
First-level divisions (85)
- Altai Republic
- Amur
- Bashkortostan
- Chechen Republic
- Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
- Chuvash Republic
- Jewish
- Kabardino-Balkaria
- Kamchatka Krai
- Karachay-Cherkess Republic
- Karelia
- Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
- Komi Republic
- Leningrad
- Magadan
- Mari El Republic
- Moscow
- Nenets Autonomous Okrug
- Nizhny Novgorod
- Primorsky Krai
- Republic of Adygea
- Republic of Buryatia
- Republic of Dagestan
- Republic of Ingushetia
- Republic of Kalmykia
- Republic of Khakassia
- Republic of Mordovia
- Republic of North Ossetia-Alania
- Republic of Tatarstan
- Sakha Republic
- Sakhalin
- Tuva Republic
- Udmurt Republic
- Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
- Arkhangelsk
- Autonomous Republic of Crimea
- Chelyabinsk
- Irkutsk
- Kemerovo
- Khabarovsk Krai
- Kirov
- Kostroma
- Krasnodar Krai
- Krasnoyarsk Krai
- Kurgan
- Murmansk
- Novgorod
- Novosibirsk
- Omsk
- Orenburg
- Perm Krai
- Pskov
- Rostov
- Ryazan
- Samara
- Saratov
- Sevastopol
- Smolensk
- Sverdlovsk
- Tomsk
- Tver
- Tyumen
- Volgograd
- Vologda
- Voronezh
- Yaroslavl
- Zabaykalsky Krai
- Altai Republic
- Astrakhan
- Belgorod
- Bryansk
- Ivanovo
- Kaliningrad
- Kaluga
- Kursk
- Lipetsk
- Oryol
- Penza
- Saint Petersburg
- Stavropol Krai
- Tambov
- Tula
- Ulyanovsk
- Vladimir
- Moscow
Major cities
- Moscow (population 10,452,000)
- Saint Petersburg (population 4,553,000)
- Novosibirsk (population 1,389,000)
- Yekaterinburg (population 1,313,000)
- Nizhny Novgorod (population 1,278,000)
- Samara (population 1,137,000)
- Omsk (population 1,135,000)
- Kazan (population 1,115,000)
- Chelyabinsk (population 1,091,000)
- Rostov-on-Don (population 1,052,000)
- Ufa (population 1,018,000)
- Perm (population 997,000)
- Volgograd (population 984,000)
- Krasnoyarsk (population 925,000)
- Voronezh (population 844,000)