Russia
Europe · Eastern Europe
Key facts
- Capital
- Moscow
- Region
- Europe
- Subregion
- Eastern Europe
- Population (2025)
- 144 million (143,513,328) · rank 9 of 193
- Area (2023)
- 17,125,190 km² · rank 1 of 193
- People per km²
- 8.4 (calculated from the two figures above)
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (2025, 2023), CC BY 4.0. data.worldbank.org
Test yourself
The first question is always Russia, then four more countries of the same region.
Unfolding the map…
Neighbours on the map
Countries whose outline shares a border with Russia in the map data: 14.
- Azerbaijan capitals 1,930 km apart
- Belarus capitals 680 km apart
- China capitals 5,790 km apart
- Estonia capitals 870 km apart
- Finland capitals 890 km apart
- Georgia capitals 1,640 km apart
- Kazakhstan capitals 2,270 km apart
- Latvia capitals 840 km apart
- Lithuania capitals 790 km apart
- Mongolia capitals 4,630 km apart
- North Korea capitals 6,410 km apart
- Norway capitals 1,640 km apart
- Poland capitals 1,150 km apart
- Ukraine capitals 760 km apart
Based on the Natural Earth 1:110m outlines. The 29 states drawn as dots are not counted as neighbours.
The flag
Flags with a similar colour layout, used as wrong options on Hard: Bulgaria, Slovakia, Slovenia, Czechia.
In the quizzes
The levels on which Russia is asked in each selection:
| Selection | Map | Flag | Capital |
|---|---|---|---|
| World | Easy · Medium | Easy · Medium | Easy · Medium |
| Europe | Easy · Medium | Easy · Medium · Hard | Easy · Medium · Hard |
| Asia | Easy · Medium | Easy · Medium | Easy · Medium |
| Giants by area | Easy · Medium · Hard | Easy · Medium · Hard | Easy · Medium · Hard |
| Giants by population | Easy · Medium | Easy · Medium · Hard | Easy · Medium · Hard |
In four languages
| Country | Capital | |
|---|---|---|
| English | Russia | Moscow |
| Italiano | Russia | Mosca |
| Magyar | Oroszország | Moszkva |
| Suomi | Venäjä | Moskova |