Russia

Facts

What the numbers say about Russia

• Russia is the largest place listed, 1.71× the size of Canada, the next largest.
• At 8.6 people per km², Russia is the 167th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 66°N is drawn about 6.1× too large in area, so Russia looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Russia's main territory stretches about 4,530 km north to south and 7,940 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 17,098,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 16,980,000 km², to within 2%.

How Russia measures up

Russia holds 74% of the land area and 20% of the people of the 50 countries listed for Europe. In Eastern Europe it is the 1st largest of 10.

Where Russia sits

• Russia's centre lies at 66.0°N, 95.7°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 7,340 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 41°N to 82°N, about 4,520 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Russia had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Russia would have 21.27 billion people. It has 146.1 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Russia would have 63.2 million people. It has 146.1 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 1.23 billion.

Compare Russia

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