Russia
Russia Russia / is a country located in northern Eurasia, with a republican rule with a semi-presidential system of 85 federal entities, two of which have limited international recognition (the Republic of Crimea and the Federal City of Sevastopol). Russia has common borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland (via Kaliningradskaya oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, the People's Republic of China, Mongolia, and North Korea. It also has maritime borders with Japan in the Sea of Okhotsk and the United States through the Bering Strait. Russia is the largest country in the world by area, covering 1/8 of the world's inhabited land area with an area of 17,075,400 square kilometers (6,592,800 square miles), and it is the ninth largest country in terms of population in the world with more than 143 million people . Russia stretches across all of North Asia and 40% of Europe, it also covers nine time zones and incl...