Russia: all about this country and its main places!

General Information About Russia

Population

There are 146,691,020 people here, or 1.97% of the world's population.

Geography

The inhabitants speak the following languages: Russian. The area of the country is 17,098,242 km², a postcode system is employed and the main cities are: Москва, Волгоград, Краснодар, Махачкала, Казань. Moscow serves as this nation's capital and the country shares a border with Azerbaijan, Belarus, China, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Kazakhstan, North Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Norway, Poland, Ukraine.

Education

Well known universities are: Lomonosov Moscow State University, P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, National Research Center «Kurchatov Institute», Novosibirsk State University, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research.

Economy

The GDP in 2021 was $1,778,782,625,793 USD, making it the 11# country in the world. In this country a Big Mac is worth 135.00руб (around $1.74 USD). The local currency (RUB) is represented by the symbol руб.

Culture

You can find some UNESCO listed places: Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments, Kizhi Pogost, Kremlin and Red Square, Moscow, Historic Monuments of Novgorod and Surroundings, Cultural and Historic Ensemble of the Solovetsky Islands.

Good to know

The country's ISO code is RU, telephone numbers begin with +7, the country's websites have the domain name ".ru" For more information about this country, check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia.

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