What is Russia? A report all about Russia for homework/assignment Russia or (), also officially known as the Russian Federation (), is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares land borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both with Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, and North Korea. It shares maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk, the US state of Alaska across the Bering Strait and Canada's Arctic islands. At, Russia is the largest country in the world, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area. Russia is also the world's ninth most populous nation with 143 million people as of 2012. Extending across the entirety of northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe, Russia spans nine time zones and incorporates a wide range of environments and landforms. Intro/Outro music: Discovery Hit/Chucky the Construction Worker - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under CC-BY-3.0 Text derived from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia Text to Speech powered by voice-rss.com Images are Public Domain or CC-BY-3.0: Russia_natural_population_growth_rates_2012.PNG from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia Russian_Tsardom_1500_to_1700.png from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsardom_of_Russia 2000px-Soviet_Union_-_Russia.svg.png from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic Russia_ethnic.JPG from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Empire Flag-map_of_Russia.svg from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag-map_of_Russia.svg COA-map_of_Russia.png from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:COA-map_of_Russia.png Miss_Russia_2010.JPG from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Russia_2010 World_around_1900.jpg from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Bear

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