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Geographical location

Russia is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Pacific Ocean via the Bering Strait, the Bering Sea, the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan.It borders to the south with North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, the Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan, Georgia and bounded by the Black Sea. On the western side, Russia is determined by Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Estonia, the Baltic Sea, Finland and Norway. Russia has several islands in the Arctic Ocean such as Novaya Zemlia, Severnaïa Zemlia, New Siberia archipelago, Wrangel Island, and in the Pacific Ocean such as the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin Island.

Russia consists of federal districts as follows:

• The central federal district and its capital is Moscow
• The Federal District of the South, its capital is Rostov-on-Don)
• The Federal District of the North-West, its capital is Saint Petersburg)
• The federal district of Privoljsk or Volga and its capital is Nizhny Novgorod)
• Ural Federal District, its capital is Yekaterinburg
• Siberian Federal District, its capital is Novosibirsk)
• The Far Eastern Federal District, its capital is Khabarovsk

Russia is a country with an area close to 17100000 km² and a population of just over 140702000 people. Russia belongs to the continent of Europe. Its ALPHA2 code is RU and ALPHA3 code is RUS.

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