Russia's land area is 1709820 square kilometers, accounting for 76.3% of the total area of the former Soviet Union. Russia spans Eurasia, with a maximum length of 9,000 kilometers from east to west and a maximum width of 4,000 kilometers from north to south. Its territory includes eastern Europe and northern Asia, making it the most vast country in the world.
Russia's border line is 60,933 kilometers long, of which the coastline is 38,807 kilometers long, bordering 12 sea areas in the Atlantic Ocean, the Arctic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. The land border is 14509 km long, with 14 countries in the south and southeast, China and North Korea, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Georgia and Azerbaijan in the south, Ukraine in the southwest and Finland, Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Norway in the west. Kaliningrad borders Poland and Lithuania. It faces Japan and America across the sea.
Terrain:
Russia is mainly plain and plateau. The terrain is high in the south and low in the north, low in the west and high in the east.
Almost all of the western part belongs to the Eastern European Plain, and the eastern part is the Ural Mountains, the Western Siberian Plain, the Central Siberian Plateau, the Northern Siberian Lowland, the Eastern Siberian Mountains and the Pacific Coast Mountains. The Great Caucasus Mountains stand in the southwest, with the highest peak, Mount Elbrus, at an altitude of 5642 meters.
36% of Russia's territory is in the Arctic Circle, and from north to south, it is Arctic desert, tundra, grassland, forest tundra, forest belt, forest grassland belt and semi-desert belt.