Location:
Northern Asia (the area west of the Urals is considered
part of Europe), bordering the Arctic Ocean, between Europe
and the North Pacific Ocean
Geographic coordinates: 60 00 N, 100 00 E
Map references: Asia
Area: total: 17,075,200 sq km,
land: 16,995,800 sq km,
water: 79,400 sq
km
Area - comparative: approximately 1.8 times
the size of the US
Land boundaries: total: 20,017
km,
border countries: Azerbaijan 284 km, Belarus
959 km, China (southeast) 3,605 km, China (south) 40 km, Estonia
294 km, Finland 1,340 km, Georgia 723 km, Kazakhstan 6,846
km, North Korea 19 km, Latvia 217 km, Lithuania (Kaliningrad
Oblast) 227 km, Mongolia 3,485 km, Norway 196 km, Poland (Kaliningrad
Oblast) 206 km, Ukraine 1,576 km
Coastline: 37,653 km
Maritime claims: territorial sea:
12 nm,
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm,
continental
shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation
Climate: ranges from steppes in the south
through humid continental in much of European Russia; sub-arctic
in Siberia to tundra climate in the polar north; winters vary
from cool along Black Sea coast to frigid in Siberia; summers
vary from warm in the steppes to cool along Arctic coast
Terrain: broad plain with low hills west
of Urals; vast coniferous forest and tundra in Siberia; uplands
and mountains along southern border regions
Elevation extremes: lowest point: Caspian
Sea -28 m,
highest point: Gora El'brus 5,633 m
Natural resources: wide natural resource
base including major deposits of oil, natural gas, coal, and
many strategic minerals, timber,
note: formidable
obstacles of climate, terrain, and distance hinder exploitation
of natural resources
Population:
142,893,540 (July 2006 est.)
Age structure: 0-14 years: 14.2%
(male 10,441,151/female 9,921,102),
15-64 years:
71.3% (male 49,271,698/female 52,679,463),
65 years and
over: 14.4% (male 6,500,814/female 14,079,312) (2006
est.)
Population growth rate: -0.37% (2006 est.)
Birth rate: 9.95 births/1,000 population
(2006 est.)
Life expectancy at birth: total population:
67.08 years,
male: 60.45 years,
female:
74.1 years (2006 est.)
Total fertility rate: 1.28 children born/woman
(2006 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 1.1% (2001
est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 860,000
(2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths: 9,000 (2001 est.)
Nationality: noun: Russian(s),
adjective:
Russian
Ethnic groups: Russian 79.8%, Tatar 3.8%,
Ukrainian 2%, Bashkir 1.2%, Chuvash 1.1%, other or unspecified
12.1% (2002 census)
Religions: Russian Orthodox, Muslim, other
Languages: Russian, many minority languages
Literacy: definition: age 15 and
over can read and write,
total population: 99.6%,
male: 99.7% ,
female: 99.5% (2003 est.)
