Russian FederationРоссийская Федерация
Rossiyskaya Federatsiya

FlagCoat of arms

Anthem: 
"Государственный гимн Российской Федерации"
"Gosudarstvenny gimn Rossiyskoy Federatsii"  (transliteration)
"State Anthem of the Russian Federation"

Capital
and largest cityMoscow
55°45′N 37°37′E? / ?55.750°N 37.617°E? / 55.750; 37.617
Official languagesRussian official throughout the country; 27 other languages co-official in various regions
Ethnic groups (2010[1])

81.0% Russians

3.7% Tatars

1.4% Ukrainians

1.1% Bashkirs

1.0% Chuvashes

11.8% others / unspecified

DemonymRussian
GovernmentFederal semi-presidential constitutional republic
 - PresidentVladimir Putin
 - Prime MinisterDmitry Medvedev
LegislatureFederal Assembly
 - Upper houseFederation Council
 - Lower houseState Duma
Formation
 - Kievan Rus'882 
 - Grand Duchy of Moscow1283 
 - Tsardom of Russia16 January 1547 
 - Russian Empire22 October 1721 
 - Russian SFSR6 November 1917 
 - Part of Soviet Union10 December 1922 
 - Russian Federation25 December 1991 
Area
 - Total17,075,400 km2 (1st)
6,592,800 sq mi 
 - Water (%)13[2] (including swamps)
Population
 - 2012 estimate143,300,000[3] (9th)
 - Density8.3/km2 (217th)
21.5/sq mi
GDP (PPP)2012 estimate
 - Total$2.513 trillion[4] (6th)
 - Per capita$17,709[4] (55th)
GDP (nominal)2012 estimate
 - Total$2.022 trillion[4] (8th)
 - Per capita$14,247[4] (48th)
Gini (2008)42.3[5]
medium ・ 83rd
HDI (2013) 0.788[6]
high ・ 55th
CurrencyRussian ruble (RUB)
Time zone(UTC+3 to +12a)
Date formatdd.mm.yyyy
Drives on theright
Calling code+7
ISO 3166 codeRU
Internet TLD

.ru

.su

.рф

a.Excluding +5.

Russia i/?r???/ or /?r???/ (Russian: Россия, tr. Rossiya; IPA: [r??s?ij?] ( listen)), also officially known as the Russian Federation[7] (Russian: Российская Федерация, tr. Rossiyskaya Federatsiya; IPA: [r??s?ijsk?j? f??d???rats?j?] ( listen)), is a country in northern Eurasia.[8] It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares land borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both with Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, and North Korea.