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Russia: map and facts
Russia is in Eastern Europe. It has about 144 million people (2025), the 9th largest population. It covers 17,125,190 km², the largest by area. That is about 8.4 people per km². Its highest point is Gora Elbrus, at 5,642 m. The longest river on its map is the Lena, 4,294 km from source to mouth.
Facts
- Population: 143,513,328 (2025, World Bank)
- Area: 17,125,190 km² (2024, World Bank)
- Capital: Moscow
- Highest point: Gora Elbrus, 5,642 m (Wikidata)
- Forest: 50.8% of the land (2024, World Bank)
Rivers
The longest rivers on the map of Russia, with the length of each whole river (Wikidata):
- Lena: 4,294 km
- Irtysh: 4,248 km
- Ob: 3,650 km
- Volga: 3,530 km
- Amur: 2,824 km
- Ural: 2,428 km
- Dnieper: 2,285 km
- Aldan: 2,273 km
- Kolyma: 2,129 km
- Pechora: 1,809 km
Also on the map: Angara, Selenga, Northern Dvina, Sukhona, Olenekskaya Protoka, Bykovskaya Protoka, Argun, Yenisey, Yenisei and Shishhid Gol.
Mountains and landscapes
Its highest peaks:
- Gora Elbrus: 5,642 m (its highest point)
- Gora Shkhara: 5,193 m
- Klyuchevskaya Sopka: 4,754 m
- Belukha: 4,506 m
- Gora Tebulosmta: 4,493 m
- Bazarduzu: 4,466 m
- Huiten Peak: 4,374 m
- Dombai-Ulgen: 4,046 m
Mountain ranges: Caucasus Mountains, Ural Mountains, Altai Mountains, Stanovoy Range, Eastern Sayan Mountains, Sikhote-Alin, Verkhoyansk Range, Yablonovyy Range, Abakan Range, Cherskiy Range, Kolyma Range and Koryak Range.
Plateaus, plains, deserts and other regions: Kazakh Steppe, Siberia, Bolshezemelskaya Tundra, Central Siberian Plateau, Kamchatka Peninsula, Pontic Steppe, Taymyr Peninsula, Yamal Peninsula, Aldan Upland, Caspian Depression, Central Russian Upland and Franz Josef Land.
Land
Land cover seen from satellites (NASA MODIS, 2024): open shrubland 20.7%, wooded savanna 16.3%, mixed forest 15.1%, savanna 13.8%, grassland 12.7%, farmland 6.2%.
Landforms, worked out from the height of the land (USGS GMTED2010): plains 48.2%, hills 29.3%, mountains 16.9%, plateaus 5.4%.
Forests covered 50.8% of its land in 2024, up from 49.6% in 1995 (World Bank).
Minerals and fuels
- World #2 in oil among the countries EIA lists (2025)
- World #2 in natural gas among the countries EIA lists (2024)
- World #2 in gold among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #2 in potash among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #2 in platinum-group metals among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #2 in antimony among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #3 in nickel among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #3 in cobalt among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #3 in sulfur among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #4 in coal among the countries EIA lists (2024)
- World #4 in tungsten among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #4 in phosphate among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #4 in niobium among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #5 in copper among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #5 in lead among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #6 in iron ore among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #6 in graphite among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #7 in silver among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #8 in bauxite among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #8 in zinc among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #8 in rare earths among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #9 in salt among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #10 in barite among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #10 in silica sand among the countries USGS lists (2025)
Neighbours
Russia shares land borders with Azerbaijan, Belarus, China, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, North Korea, Norway, Poland and Ukraine on this map.
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Sources
India’s boundaries are drawn according to India’s official position, simplified for small-scale maps (data: Natural Earth, India view). Each figure shows its year and source; some are rounded. Data release 2026.2.
- Natural Earth (naturalearthdata.com), public domain. Boundaries follow India's official position (Natural Earth's India point of view). Terms
- GMTED2010 courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey (Danielson and Gesch 2011, USGS Open-File Report 2011-1073). Terms
- Friedl, M., Sulla-Menashe, D. (2022). MODIS/Terra+Aqua Land Cover Type Yearly L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V061. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC. doi:10.5067/MODIS/MCD12Q1.061. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL): UN Population Division, national statistical offices (2025 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Surface area (AG.SRF.TOTL.K2): FAO (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Forest area (% of land area) (AG.LND.FRST.ZS): FAO, FAOSTAT (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- Wikidata (CC0): names, capitals, peak heights and river lengths, checked by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- Credit: U.S. Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 data release (doi:10.5066/P1WKQ63T). Terms
- Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (2026-09-03). Terms
- Landforms worked out by Make Me Smarter from GMTED2010.
- Some figures corrected by Make Me Smarter from published references: Australian Bureau of Statistics; Atlas of Canada; CIA World Factbook (archived); FAO; FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025; FSM Statistics; GeoNames; Gilbertson & Gilbertson's GPS surveys of national high points; INEGI (Mexico); Peaklist.org; PeakVisor; Government of the Pitcairn Islands; Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program; Statistics Finland; UN Demographic Yearbook; UN World Population Prospects 2024; Wikidata; Wikipedia.
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