{"id":278,"date":"2014-04-07T14:23:44","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T21:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/?p=278"},"modified":"2019-07-18T15:21:09","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T22:21:09","slug":"interesting-facts-about-russian-geography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/interesting-facts-about-russian-geography","title":{"rendered":"17 Interesting Facts about Russian Geography"},"content":{"rendered":"

We love cool facts and we love to share with fun facts about Russia<\/strong> with you!
\nHere are\u00a017 Fun Facts about the Russian geography<\/strong>.\u00a0Where is the center of Russia, how big is Russia, is it a European or an Asian country?
\nEven if you are planning\u00a0tours to Moscow<\/a> or St Petersburg only, \u00a0you need to know these facts.<\/p>\n

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Russia Facts, Interesting facts about Russia. Russia Map<\/p><\/div>\n

17 Facts about Russian Geography<\/h2>\n

1. Russia is the largest country<\/strong> in the world\u00a0with an\u00a0area of 17,075,400 square kilometers. It is 1.8 times bigger than the United States. The territory of\u00a0Russia almost covers\u00a0the surface of the planet Pluto. Russia is the seventh of the Earth’s land area. Forests cover about 60% of the country.<\/p>\n

2. The New Zealand city of Dunedin is the most remote from Moscow<\/strong> settlement on Earth.<\/p>\n

3. The border between Kazakhstan and Russia is the longest continuous land border in the world<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0Lake Vivi is\u00a0the geographical center of Russia<\/strong>, located on the 66 \u00b0 C. w. and at 94 \u00b0. e., to\u00a0the north of Arkhangelsk city and the east of Krasnoyarsk city.<\/p>\n

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Russia. Lake Vivi is the geographical center of Russia. Photo: ptr-vlad.ru<\/p><\/div>\n

5.\u00a0Russia <\/a>has the world’s largest active volcano<\/strong> Kluchevskoy. Its height is 4 kilometers 850 meters. A\u00a0column of ash from the volcano rises 8\u00a0kilometers\u00a0into the air. With each eruption, it\u00a0becomes higher. Kluchevskoy\u00a0volcano has been erupting for the last\u00a07000 years.<\/p>\n

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Russia. Klyuchevskoy volcano. Photo: wulkano.ru<\/p><\/div>\n

6.\u00a0The largest swamp in the world<\/strong> is the Russian Great Vasyugan swamp. With an area of 53-55 thousand square kilometers.<\/p>\n

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Russia. Russian Great Vasyugan swamp. Photo: liveinternet.ru\/users\/lusiya78<\/p><\/div>\n

5. Trans-Siberian Railway is the longest railway in the world<\/strong>. Great Siberian Way that connects Moscow to Vladivostok, has a length of 9298 kilometers, crosses eight time zones, 16 rivers, including the Volga and passes through 87 cities and towns and crosses.<\/p>\n

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Russia. Great Transiberian Raiway<\/p><\/div>\n

6.\u00a0Russia is considered a European country<\/strong>, but two-thirds of the country is in Asia.<\/p>\n

7. Siberian Lake Baikal is the deepest lake<\/strong> in the world<\/strong> and the largest source of fresh water on the planet. Lake Baikal contains\u00a023 cubic kilometers of water. All the major rivers of the world – the Volga, Don, Dnieper, Yenisey, Ural, Ob, the Ganges, the Orinoco, the Amazon, the Thames, the Seine and Oder should flow almost a year to fill the pool equal to the volume of Lake Baikal.<\/p>\n

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Russia. Baikal lake. Photo: mirtc.com<\/p><\/div>\n

8. Russia is the only country which\u00a0territory is bordered by twelve seas<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

9. Russia is separated from America by 4 kilometers<\/strong>. This is distance between the island Ratmanova (Russia) and the island Krusenstern (USA) in the Bering Strait.<\/p>\n

10. Ural Mountains are the oldest mountains in the world<\/strong>. The mountain Pencil \u00a0is 4, 2 billion years old. Historical names of the Ural Mountains are Big Stone, Siberian Stone, Earth Belt, Belt Stone. Once the Ural mountains were very high, but now only\u00a0the base is left.<\/p>\n

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Russia. Ural Mountains. Photo tainy.info<\/p><\/div>\n

11.\u00a0\u00a0In Russia, there are 103 reserve, 70 sanctuaries and 43 giant national parks<\/strong>. The total area of protected areas in Russia is almost 600 thousand square kilometers, accounting for 4% of the total area of the country, or a little more that the territory of\u00a0France.<\/p>\n

12. The area of Siberia<\/strong> is 9 million 734.3 thousand square kilometers, accounting for 9% of the Earth’s land, or the whole territory of China.<\/p>\n

13.\u00a0 Siberian taiga is the world’s largest forest<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

14.\u00a0The West Siberian Plain is the largest plain in the world<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Russia. The West Siberian Plain. Photo: dic.academic.ru<\/p><\/div>\n

15. Lake Mogilnoe in the Murmansk region is unique for its\u00a0four layers of varying degrees of salinity. In the uppermost layer of freshwater live daphnia and copepods. At the lowest layer, where the salinity reaches 3.3%, purple bacteria are the only inhabitants. In the middle layers are typical\u00a0sea creatures, such as sea stars. They are kind of trapped as they can\u00a0not live either in the\u00a0upper layer or lower layer. Mogilnoe Lake is 1000 years old<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Russia. Mogilnoe Lake. Photo interest-planet.ru<\/p><\/div>\n

16. \u00a0Russia ranks first in the world in oil and gas<\/strong>, exports of steel, primary aluminum, nitrogen fertilizers.<\/p>\n

17.\u00a0Russia has borders with 16 countries<\/strong>: Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, North Korea, Japan and the United States. Russia is also bordered by two unrecognized states: South Ossetia and Abkhazia.<\/p>\n

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Russia. Map of Russia. Photo: Dreamstime.com<\/p><\/div>\n

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Do you plan travelling to Russia?<\/strong> What is on your\u00a0bucket list when in Russia?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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