Official name
Russian Federation
Name in local language
Российская Федерация (ru)
Continent
Europe
Subcontinent
Europe (outside the European Union)
Population (ranking: 9e )
146,238,185 inhabitants (2021)
Population growth
-0.35 % / year
Area
17,125,402 km²
Density
8.54 inhabitants / km²
GDP (ranking: 11e )1,699.877 billions $USD (2019)
GDP/capita (ranking )
11,585 $USD (2019)
GDP growth
1.30 % / year (2019)
Life expectancy (ranking )
72.40 years (2018)
Birth rate
12.90 ‰ (2016)
Fertility rate
1.70 children / woman (2014)
Death rate (ranking )
12.90 ‰ (2016)
Infant mortality rate (ranking )
6.00 ‰ (2016)
Literacy rate
99.72 % (2015)
Official languages
Russian
Currency
Ruble (₽ RUB)
HDI (ranking: 72e )0.824 / 1 (2019)
EPI (ranking )63.79 (2018)
Government
Federal semi-presidential constitutional republic[2]
Head of State
President Vladimir Putin
National Day
12 December (new Constitution of 1993)
ISO Codes RU, RUS
Demonym
Russian
Tourists (ranking )
24,551,000 people (2018)
A big country that seeks to regain its power
Russia is the largest country in the world, with more than 17 million km2 , far ahead of Canada , second. It is located astride Europe, to the west, and Asia, to the east. It covers a dozen time zones . It shares borders with many countries: Norway , Finland , Estonia , Latvia , Lithuania and Poland (Kaliningrad enclave), Belarus , Ukraine , Georgia , Azerbaijan , Kazakhstan , Mongolia , China , North Korea . It also has maritime borders very close to those of Japan (Kuriles ) and the United States (Alaska) in the Pacific Ocean.
Lake Baikal, Siberia, Russia. The deepest lake in the world, it holds as much water as all the Great Lakes in North America. In spring, the ice melts and reveals frozen blocks of turquoise waters of the lake. World Trade Center, Moscow, Russia. Photo: Moscow Government Urban areas (2019)
Urban areas
Population
Moscow
20,215,638 inhabitants
Saint Petersburg
6,290,174 inhabitants
Samara-Tolyatti
2,732,321 inhabitants
Rostov-on-Don
2,212,875 inhabitants
Yekaterinburg
2,211,425 inhabitants
Novosibirsk
2,093,266 inhabitants
Nizhny Novgorod
2,086,972 inhabitants
Kazan
1,680,834 inhabitants
Chelyabinsk
1,608,652 inhabitants
Ufa
1,454,053 inhabitants
Krasnodar
1,441,866 inhabitants
Volgograd
1,412,494 inhabitants
Voronezh
1,332,382 inhabitants
Krasnoyarsk
1,324,915 inhabitants
Novokuznetsk
1,312,614 inhabitants
Perm
1,306,876 inhabitants
Omsk
1,261,079 inhabitants
Saratov
1,234,511 inhabitants
Pyatigorsk
1,194,859 inhabitants
Sevastopol
1,180,263 inhabitants
Irkutsk
1,088,310 inhabitants
Tula
1,026,069 inhabitants
Izhevsk
965,550 inhabitants
Naberezhnye Chelny
955,750 inhabitants
Barnaul
864,370 inhabitants
Administrative divisions
Subjects
Population
Area
Adygea
454,744 inhabitants
7,792 km²
Altai (Krai)
2,332,813 inhabitants
167,996 km²
Altai (Republic)
218,866 inhabitants
92,903 km²
Amur
793,194 inhabitants
361,913 km²
Arkhangelsk
1,144,119 inhabitants
589,913 km²
Astrakhan
1,014,065 inhabitants
49,024 km²
Bashkortostan (Bashkiria)
4,051,005 inhabitants
142,947 km²
Belgorod
1,547,418 inhabitants
27,134 km²
Bryansk
1,200,187 inhabitants
34,857 km²
Buryatia
983,273 inhabitants
351,334 km²
Chechnya
1,456,951 inhabitants
15,647 km²
Chelyabinsk
3,475,753 inhabitants
88,529 km²
Chukotka
49,663 inhabitants
721,481 km²
Chuvashia
1,223,395 inhabitants
18,343 km²
Crimea
1,911,818 inhabitants
26,081 km²
Dagestan
3,086,126 inhabitants
50,270 km²
Ingushetia
497,393 inhabitants
3,628 km²
Irkutsk
2,397,763 inhabitants
774,846 km²
Ivanovo
1,004,180 inhabitants
21,437 km²
Jewish Autonomous Oblast (JAO)
159,913 inhabitants
36,266 km²
Kabardino-Balkar
866,219 inhabitants
12,470 km²
Kaliningrad
1,002,187 inhabitants
15,125 km²
Kalmykia
272,647 inhabitants
74,731 km²
Kaluga
1,009,380 inhabitants
29,777 km²
Kamchatka
314,723 inhabitants
464,275 km²
See also
