Some facts about Russia

• 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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