Russia
Russia (officially Russian Federation) is a country in Eastern Europe, with its capital at Moscow, and is home to roughly 143.7M people.
Russian is the official language; the currency in circulation is Russian ruble (₽); people from here are called Russian.
- »Russia is the largest country on Earth, spanning eleven time zones.
- »Lake Baikal holds around a fifth of the world's unfrozen fresh water and is the deepest lake anywhere.
- »It borders more countries than almost any other state.
Russia straddles the Arctic Circle.
Russia touches 14 neighbours: Azerbaijan to the west, Belarus to the west, China to the south, Estonia to the northwest, Finland to the northwest, Georgia to the west, Kazakhstan to the west, Latvia to the northwest, Lithuania to the northwest, Mongolia to the south, North Korea to the southeast, Norway to the northwest, Poland to the northwest and Ukraine to the west. Directions run from one centre to the other.
Moscow's Kremlin has been the seat of Russian power for centuries, though Saint Petersburg held the capital from 1712 until 1918. Its metro stations were built as public palaces, with chandeliers and mosaics.
16,876,746 km² (6,516,145 sq mi), 1st largest of 198 countries and territories on file.
Population 143,669,648, 9th of 198 on file. That averages 8.5 per km² (22 per sq mi).
Peter the Great is generally credited with bringing the white-blue-red back from the Netherlands in the 1690s. It became the model for the pan-Slavic colours used across eastern Europe.
Close enough to Bulgaria's flag to cost you a guess.
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