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Russia
/ˈrʌʃə/ (help·info) (Russian: Россия, Rossiya), or the Russian
Federation[9] (Russian: Российская Федерация?·i, Rossiyskaya
Federatsiya), is a transcontinental country extending over much of
northern Eurasia. It is a semi-presidential republic comprising 83
federal subjects. Russia shares land borders with the following
countries (counterclockwise from northwest to southeast): Norway,
Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania (via Kaliningrad Oblast), Poland
(via Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan,
Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and the Democratic People's Republic of
Korea. At 17,075,400 square kilometres (6,592,800 sq mi), Russia is the
largest country in the world, covering more than an eighth of the
Earth’s land area; with 142 million people, it is the ninth largest by
population.[2] |