- The Russian Federation is a state in northern Eurasia.
- Russia is the largest country in the world, covering 6,592,800 sq mi (17.1 million km²).
- Russia has an enormous variety of landforms and landscapes.
- Of a population of about 145.5 million, nearly Eighty percent are concentrated in Western Russia.
- Moscow, the largest city in Europe, has a population of 11 million people.
- Russia covers more than a ninth of the Earth's land area.
- The country has the world's largest forest reserves
- Russian is the country's official language.
- Alphabet: Cyrillic.
- Russia spans nine time zones.
- Russian Orthodoxy is the main religion in Russian, followed to a lesser extent by Islam, Catholicism, Protestantism and Judaism.
- The country shares borders with Finland, Norway, Latvia, Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, the People's Republic of China, and North Korea.
- The average Russian family size is 3 people.
- The Russian Federation was founded following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
- The name of the country, Россия (Rossiya), comes from the Greek version of Rus', spelled Ρωσία [rosˈia], which was the denomination of Kievan Rus in the Byzantine Empire.
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