Winston Churchill, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, once described Russia as `a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.` Russia and its President Vladimir Putin have been front and center in the news recently, but what do we know about the country and its people? Geography Russia is officially named the Russian Federation. Encompassing 6,612,100 square miles Russia is the largest country in the world by area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth’s inhabited land area. It is the ninth most populous, with about 146.77 million people. Russia is about twice as large as the United States. However, it has less than half the people of the U.S. Find Moscow, Russia on...
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