|Officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation
(Russian: Российская Федерация -Rossiyskaya Federatsiya), is a
country in northern Eurasia (Europe and Asia together). It is a
semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects.
Russia shares borders with the following countries (from
northwest to southeast): Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia,
Lithuania (via Kaliningrad Oblast), Poland (via Kaliningrad
Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan,
China, Mongolia and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
It also has maritime borders with Japan (by the Sea of Okhotsk)
and the United States (by the Bering Strait). At 17,100,000
square kilometres (6,592,800 sq mi), Russia is, in area, by far
the largest country in the world, covering more than an eighth
of the Earth’s land area; with 140 million people, it is the
ninth largest by population. It extends across the whole of
northern Asia and 40% of Europe, spanning 11 time zones, and
incorporating a wide range of environments an