• Accords 26 December 1991[b]

effective
• Current
12 December 1993
constitution
• Union State
with Belarus 2 April 1996
formed
Area
17,098,246 km2
• Total (6,601,670 sq mi)[6] (without
Crimea)[c] (1st)
• Water (%) 13[8] (including swamps)
Population

146,745,098
(including Crimea)[9][10]
• 2020 estimate 144,384,244
(excluding Crimea)[9]

(9th)
• Density 8.4/km2 (21.8/sq mi) (225th)
GDP (PPP) 2020 estimate
• Total $4.519 trillion[11] (6th)
• Per capita $30,819[11] (49th)
GDP (nominal) 2020 estimate
• Total $1.657 trillion[11] (11th)
• Per capita $11,305[11] (60th)

Gini (2018) 37.5[12]

medium · 98th

HDI (2018) 0.824[13]

very high · 49th
Currency Russian ruble (₽) (RUB)
Time zone UTC+2 to +12
Date format dd.mm.yyyy
Driving side right
Calling code +7
ISO 3166 code RU

.ru
Internet TLD .su
.рф

Russia (Russian: Росси́ я, tr. Rossiya, IPA: [rɐˈsʲijə]), or the Russian Federation,[14][d] is a
transcontinental country located in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia.[15] Covering an area of 17,125,200
square kilometres (6,612,100 sq mi),[16] it is the largest country in the world by area, spanning more than
one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area,[17][18] stretching eleven time zones, and bordering 16
sovereign nations. The territory of Russia extends from the Baltic Sea in the west to the Pacific Ocean in
the east, and from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Black Sea and the Caucasus in the south. With
146.7 million inhabitants living in the country's 85 federal subjects,[9] Russia is the most populous nation