|
 |
| Russia
General Info |
 |
|
Area
17,075,400 sq km (6,592,850 sq miles).
Population
145,164,000 (official estimate 2002).
Population
Density
8.5 per sq km.
Capital
Moscow
Geography
The Russian Federation covers almost two times the area of
the USA, and reaches from Moscow in the west over the Urals and
the vast Siberian plains to the Sea of Okhotsk in the east. The
border between European Russia and Siberia is formed by the Ural
Mountains, the Ural River and the Manych Depression. European Russia
stretches from the North Polar Sea across the Central Russian Uplands
to the Black Sea, the Northern Caucasus and the Caspian Sea. Siberia
extends from the West Siberian Plain across the Central Siberian
Plateau between Yenisey and Lena, including the Sayan, Yablonovy
and Stanovoy ranges in the south to the East Siberian mountains
between Lena and the Pacific coast, including the Chukotskiy and
Kamchatka peninsulas. |
|
| Republic |
Area (sq km) |
Population 000’s |
Capital |
| Adygheya |
7600 |
447 |
Maikop |
| Altai |
92,600 |
203 |
Gorno-Altaisk |
| Bashkortostan |
143,600 |
4103 |
Ufa |
| Buryatia |
351,300 |
981 |
Ulan-Ude |
| Chechnyat |
N/A |
1100 |
Grozny |
| Chuvashia |
18,300 |
1314 |
Cheboksary |
| Daghestan |
50,300 |
2584 |
Makhachkala |
| Ingushetia* |
N/A |
469 |
Magas |
| Kabardino-Balkariya |
12,500 |
901 |
Nalchik |
| Kalmykiya |
75,900 |
292 |
Elista |
| KarachayevoCherkessiya |
14,100 |
440 |
Cherkessk |
| Kareliya |
172,400 |
717 |
Petrozavodsk |
| Khakassiya |
61,900 |
546 |
Abakan |
| Komi |
415,900 |
1019 |
Syktyvkar |
| Marii-El |
23,200 |
728 |
Yoshkar-Ola |
| Mordoviya |
26,200 |
889 |
Saransk |
| Northern Osetiya |
8000 |
710 |
Vladikavkaz |
| Sakha (Yakutiya) |
3,103,200 |
948 |
Yakutsk |
| Tatarstan |
68,000 |
3780 |
Kazan |
| Tyva |
170,500 |
306 |
Kyzyl |
| Udmurtiya |
42,100 |
1571 |
Izhevsk |
|
| |
Note
*Until 1992, territories of the Republic of Chechnya and the Ingush
Republic were combined in the Chechen-Ingush autonomous republic
(area 19,300 sq km).
Government
Republic since 1991.
Head of Government:
President Vladimir Putin since 2000.
Language
Russian.
English, German or French are spoken by some people.
Religion
Mostly Christian with the Russian Orthodox Church being the largest
Christian community.
Muslim, Jewish and Buddhist minorities also exist.
Time
The Russian Federation is divided into 11 time zones. Summer time
is + 1 from last Sunday in March to Saturday before last Sunday
in October.
Kaliningrad:
GMT + 2. Moscow, St Petersburg, Astrakhan:
GMT + 3. Izhevsk and Samara:
GMT + 4. Perm – Nizhnevartovsk:
GMT + 5. Omsk and Novosibirsk:
GMT + 6. Norilsk, Kyzyl:
GMT + 7. Bratsk – Ulan Ude:
GMT + 8. Chita, Yakutsk:
GMT + 9. Khabarovsk, Vladivostok:
GMT + 10. Magadan, Yuzhno Sakhalinsk:
GMT + 11. Petropavlosk:
GMT + 12.
Electricity
220 volts AC, 50Hz. |
|
| |
|
|
|
