Capital: Moscow

Largest City: Moscow (10,375,700)

Highest Elevation: Gora El'brus 5,633 m (18481 ft)

Population: 143,782,338

Lowest Elevation: Caspian Sea -28 m (-92 ft)

Geography: broad plain with low hills west of Urals; vast coniferous forest and tundra in Siberia; uplands and mountains along southern border regions

Climate: ranges from steppes in the south through humid continental in much of European Russia; subarctic in Siberia to tundra climate in the polar north

Languages: Russian, other

Area: 6,591,027 sq. mile / 17,075,200 sq. kil (slightly less than 1.8 times the size of the US )

International Calling Code: 7

Tourism Website: http://russia-tourism.com/

Currency: Ruble

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