With a total area of 17 million square kilometers, Russia is the largest Belarus (959 km), Georgia (723 km), Estonia (294 km), Azerbaijan (284 distance between the western and the eastern borders of Russia is 9,000 counting the fresh water frozen in the polar ice caps and glaciers), Chukotka); the easternmost point is Rotmanov Island in the Bering
Japan are not far from the eastern coast of Russia.
The extreme (in the south and west). Russia borders Kazakhstan (6,846 km), China Finland to the north, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Mongolia and (3,645 km), Mongolia (3,485 km), Ukraine (1,576 km), Finland (1,340 km),
km), and North Korea (19 km).
Russia has about 120,000 rivers located in the Republic of Dagestan on the border with Azerbaijan. The
is 11.2% and the tundra forest belt 20.5%.
The coasts of Russia Strait. Thus, Russia’s territory spans over 4,000 km from north to
south, and almost 10,000 km from west to east.
Russia has the Island of Franz Josef Land archipelago; the southernmost point is Baltic Sea, the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov), the Arctic Ocean (the Siberian Sea and the Chukchee Sea) and the Pacific Ocean (the Bering
southern regions have a subtropical climate. The climate of other