Russia (Russian Federation), RU
Russia: Independent country in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia
About
Quick Facts about Russian Federation
Population : | 143,666,931 |
Country : | Russia |
Different from : | Russian Empire, Tsardom of Russia |
Head of government : | President of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR, Prime Minister of Russia |
Plate code : | RUS |
Official name : | Российская Федерация, Россия, Venemaa Föderatsioon, la Fédération de Russie |
Speed limit : | 110, 90, 60 |
Continent : | Europe, Asia |
Easternmost point : | Point(-169.65294084 66.08017854) |
Northernmost point : | Point(59.23 81.85) |
Legislative body : | Congress of People's Deputies of Russia, Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation |
Named for : | Kievan Rus' |
Official language : | Russian, Erzya, Azerbaijani, Karachay-Balkar, Abaza, Udmurt, Komi, Kumyk, Ukrainian, Rutul, Tabasaran, Adyghe, Bashkir, Moksha, Tat, Nogai, Chuvash, Kalmyk Oirat, Dargwa, Chechen, Ingush, Tsakhur, Tatar, Buryat, Altai, Lak, Mari, Avaric, Lezgian, Ossetian, Tuvan, Sakha, Nogai, Kabardian, Aghul, Khakas, Crimean Tatar |
Capital : | Moscow, Saint Petersburg |
Establishment : | January 01, 1970 (105 years ago) |
Time Zone : | UTC+12:00, UTC+02:00, Eastern European Time, Irkutsk Time, Kaliningrad Time, Moscow Time, Samara Time, Yekaterinburg Time, Yakutsk Time, Vladivostok Time, Krasnoyarsk Time, Srednekolymsk Time, Omsk Time, Kamchatka Time, Magadan Time |
Local time : | 03:30:51 (28th March 2023) |



Geography
Russian Federation is located at 60°0'0"N 100°0'0"E (60.0, 100.0). It has 18 neighbors: Estonia, Latvia, Azerbaijan, Lithuania, South Ossetia, Georgia, Belarus, Finland, Ukraine, Poland, Kazakhstan, China, Japan, North Korea, Mongolia, Norway, Union and United States.
Russia map
The largest city of Russian Federation is Moscow with a population of 12,692,466. Other cities include, Chelyabinsk population 1,202,371, Omsk population 1,172,070, Samara population 1,156,644 and Rostov-na-Donu population 1,130,305. See all Russian Federation cities & populated places.
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- Yegor Gaidar , 15 December, 1992 1992-06-15T00:00:00Z independent politician
- Viktor Zubkov , 8 May, 2008 2007-09-14T00:00:00Z independent politician
- Mikhail Kasyanov , 24 February, 2004 2000-05-07T00:00:00Z independent politician
- Mikhail Mishustin , 2020-01-16T00:00:00Z independent politician
- Vladimir Putin , 7 May, 2012 2008-05-08T00:00:00Z independent politician
- Sergei Stepashin , 9 August, 1999 1999-05-12T00:00:00Z independent politician
- Sergey Kiriyenko , 23 August, 1998 1998-03-23T00:00:00Z independent politician
- Dmitry Medvedev , 16 January, 2020 2012-05-08T00:00:00Z United Russia
- Viktor Chernomyrdin , 11 September, 1998 1998-08-23T00:00:00Z Our Home – Russia
- Viktor Khristenko , 5 March, 2004 2004-02-24T00:00:00Z independent politician
- Boris Yeltsin , 15 June, 1992 1991-11-06T00:00:00Z independent politician
- Viktor Chernomyrdin , 23 March, 1998 1992-12-14T00:00:00Z Our Home – Russia
- Yevgeny Primakov , 12 May, 1999 1998-09-11T00:00:00Z independent politician
- Vladimir Putin , 7 May, 2000 1999-08-09T00:00:00Z independent politician
- Viktor Zubkov , 8 May, 2012 2012-05-07T00:00:00Z independent politician
- Mikhail Fradkov , 14 September, 2007 2004-03-05T00:00:00Z independent politician
Russian Federation has 18 neighbours.
- Republic of Estonia Independent country in northeastern Europe
- Republic of Latvia Independent country in northeastern Europe
- Republic of Azerbaijan Independent country in Western Asia and Eastern Europe
- Republic of Lithuania Independent country in northeastern Europe
- South Ossetia [provisional]
- Georgia country in the Caucasus
- Republic of Belarus Independent country in eastern Europe
- Republic of Finland Independent country in northern Europe
- Ukraine Independent country in eastern Europe
- Republic of Poland Independent country in Central Europe
- Republic of Kazakhstan Independent country in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
- People’s Republic of China Independent country in East Asia
- Japan Independent country in East Asia, situated on an archipelago of five main and over 6,800 smaller islands
- Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Independent country in East Asia
- Mongolia Independent country in East Asia
- Kingdom of Norway Independent country in northern Europe
- Union economic and political union of 27 states mostly located in Europe
- United States Independent country in North America
- Novosibirsk Oblast
- Tuva Republic
- Kaluga Oblast
- Mari El Republic
- Sakha Republic
- Udmurt Republic
- Republic of Ingushetia
- Murmansk Oblast
- Yaroslavl Oblast
- Belgorod Oblast
- Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
- Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
- Bryansk Oblast
- Republic of Mordovia
- Ivanovo Oblast
- Leningrad Oblast
- Tula Oblast
- Sverdlovsk Oblast
- Perm Krai
- Agin-Buryat Autonomous Okrug
- Evenk Autonomous Okrug
- Chita Oblast
- Kamchatka Oblast
- Perm Oblast
- Ust-Orda Buryat Autonomous Okrug
- Koryak Autonomous Okrug
- Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug
- Taymyr Autonomous Okrug
- Sevastopol
- Zabaykalsky Krai
- Kamchatka Krai
- Republic of Crimea
- Amur Oblast
- Krasnodar Krai
- Stavropol Krai
- Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
- Republic of Khakassia
- Kirov Oblast
- Tyumen Oblast
- Chechen Republic
- Jewish Autonomous Oblast
- Kemerovo Oblast
- Karelia
- Tambov Oblast
- Kaliningrad Oblast
- Komi Republic
- Republic of Buryatia
- Primorsky Krai
- Krasnoyarsk Krai
- Novgorod Oblast
- Tver Oblast
- Ryazan Oblast
- Khabarovsk Krai
- Tomsk Oblast
- Smolensk Region
- Vladimir Oblast
- Samara Oblast
- Arkhangelsk Oblast
- Karachay-Cherkess Republic
- Kursk Oblast
- Sakhalin Oblast
- Saint Petersburg
- Republic of North Ossetia-Alania
- Magadan Oblast
- Republic of Bashkortostan
- Republic of Dagestan
- Kurgan Oblast
- Republic of Tatarstan
- Astrakhan Oblast
- Omsk Oblast
- Orenburg Oblast
- Oryol Oblast
- Nenets Autonomous Okrug
- Lipetsk Oblast
- Pskov Oblast
- Moscow
- Chelyabinsk Oblast
- Moscow Oblast
- Altai Republic
- Saratov Oblast
- Kabardino-Balkaria
- Vologda Oblast
- Altai Krai
- Volgograd Oblast
- Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
- Voronezh Oblast
- Republic of Adygea
- Kostroma Oblast
- Ulyanovsk Oblast
- Penza Oblast
- Irkutsk Oblast
- Chuvash Republic
- Republic of Kalmykia
- Rostov Oblast
Demographics
Year | Population | % Change | Method |
1960 | 119,897,000 | - | (Worldbank) |
1961 | 121,236,000 | 1.1% | (Worldbank) |
1962 | 122,591,000 | 1.11% | (Worldbank) |
1963 | 123,960,000 | 1.1% | (Worldbank) |
1964 | 125,345,000 | 1.1% | (Worldbank) |
1965 | 126,745,000 | 1.1% | (Worldbank) |
1966 | 127,468,000 | 0.57% | (Worldbank) |
1967 | 128,196,000 | 0.57% | (Worldbank) |
1968 | 128,928,000 | 0.57% | (Worldbank) |
1969 | 129,664,000 | 0.57% | (Worldbank) |
1970 | 130,404,000 | 0.57% | (Worldbank) |
1971 | 131,155,000 | 0.57% | (Worldbank) |
1972 | 131,909,000 | 0.57% | (Worldbank) |
1973 | 132,669,000 | 0.57% | (Worldbank) |
1974 | 133,432,000 | 0.57% | (Worldbank) |
1975 | 134,200,000 | 0.57% | (Worldbank) |
1976 | 135,147,000 | 0.7% | (Worldbank) |
1977 | 136,100,000 | 0.7% | (Worldbank) |
1978 | 137,060,000 | 0.7% | (Worldbank) |
1979 | 138,027,000 | 0.7% | (Worldbank) |
1980 | 139,010,000 | 0.71% | (Worldbank) |
1981 | 139,941,000 | 0.67% | (Worldbank) |
1982 | 140,823,000 | 0.63% | (Worldbank) |
1983 | 141,668,000 | 0.6% | (Worldbank) |
1984 | 142,745,000 | 0.75% | (Worldbank) |
1985 | 143,858,000 | 0.77% | (Worldbank) |
1986 | 144,894,000 | 0.72% | (Worldbank) |
1987 | 145,908,000 | 0.69% | (Worldbank) |
1988 | 146,857,000 | 0.65% | (Worldbank) |
1989 | 147,721,000 | 0.58% | (Worldbank) |
1990 | 147,969,407 | 0.17% | (Worldbank) |
1991 | 148,394,216 | 0.29% | (Worldbank) |
1992 | 148,538,197 | 0.1% | (Worldbank) |
1993 | 148,458,777 | -0.05% | (Worldbank) |
1994 | 148,407,912 | -0.03% | (Worldbank) |
1995 | 148,375,787 | -0.02% | (Worldbank) |
1996 | 148,160,129 | -0.15% | (Worldbank) |
1997 | 147,915,361 | -0.17% | (Worldbank) |
1998 | 147,670,784 | -0.17% | (Worldbank) |
1999 | 147,214,776 | -0.31% | (Worldbank) |
2000 | 146,596,869 | -0.42% | (Worldbank) |
2001 | 145,976,482 | -0.42% | (Worldbank) |
2002 | 145,306,497 | -0.46% | (Worldbank) |
2003 | 144,648,618 | -0.45% | (Worldbank) |
2004 | 144,067,316 | -0.4% | (Worldbank) |
2005 | 143,518,814 | -0.38% | (Worldbank) |
2006 | 143,049,637 | -0.33% | (Worldbank) |
2007 | 142,805,114 | -0.17% | (Worldbank) |
2008 | 142,742,366 | -0.04% | (Worldbank) |
2009 | 142,785,349 | 0.03% | (Worldbank) |
2010 | 142,849,468 | 0.04% | (Worldbank) |
2011 | 142,960,908 | 0.08% | (Worldbank) |
2012 | 143,056,383 | 0.07% | Sevastopol |
2013 | 143,347,059 | 0.2% | Sevastopol |
2014 | 143,666,931 | 0.22% | Sevastopol |
2015 | 144,096,870 | 0.3% | (Worldbank) |
2016 | 144,342,396 | 0.17% | (Worldbank) |
2017 | 144,496,740 | 0.11% | (Worldbank) |
2018 | 144,477,860 | -0.01% | (Worldbank) |
2019 | 144,373,535 | -0.07% | (Worldbank) |