Russian Federation

  

Capital: Moscow.
National currency : ruble (from July, 1993).
Resident population (as of the веginning of the 2019) - 146,8 mln. persons.
Borders on Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, China, Korea (Peoples Democratic Republic), Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Norway, Poland, USA, Ukraine, Finland, Estonia, Japan.
 

 

 

Natural and Geographic Characteristics and Environment Protection

Share in total territory 1, % :
agricultural lands – 22,4
forest area – 65,8
water basin area – 1,6
other – 10,2

Especially protected territories (national parks, nature reserves, wildlife preserves, special hunting reserves) 2
number, units - 157
total territory, mln. ha  - 56

The longest rivers 3,  thous. km
(length along the territory of the state)
Lena – 4,4
Ob – 3,7
Volga – 3,5
Yenisei – 3,5
Amur – 2,8

The largest lakes, thous. sq. km
Caspian Sea (total area, mln. sq. km ) – 0,4
Baikal - 31,5 3
Ladozhskoye – 17,7 3
Onezhskoye - 9,7 3

The highest point, m
mountain Elbrus  -  5642

Average of  many years temperature
January +40 C to - 470C
July -10 C to + 260C
1 Data of the Federal Service of the State Registration, Cadastre and cartography (01.01.2018).
2 Only state federal national parks and nature reserves.
3 Data of the Federal Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring Service.

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