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Russia - Research Paper

Russia


is the largest country in the world, extending from the
Baltic Sea in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the East. is bordered
on the west by Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, and Ukraine; on
the south by the Black Sea, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and
China; on the east by the Pacific Ocean, and on the north by the Arctic
Ocean. The area west of the Ural Mountains is called European Russia; the
Asian part of the country, east of the Urals, is called Siberia. Russia's
capital city is Moscow.
With a total population of 149,300,359, Russia is sixth in the
world in population, after China, India, the United States, Indonesia, and
Brazil. From 1990 to 1992 Russia's ...

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Only about 1 million
people, 1.5%, are registered unemployed, but the unemployment rate is much
higher. Thousands work with no pay or with very few hours.
Russia was the main country in the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics(USSR).
The East European Plain is full of rolling lowlands. The eastern
boundary of this region, the Urals, are old mountains that have eroded. The
Urals do not go above 6,200 ft. The Caucasus Mountains form the southern
border of the Russian plain. West Siberia is swampy and has many features
in common with the rest of Russia. Eastern Siberia includes the Central
Siberian Uplands .The Kamchatka Peninsula and Sakhalin Island, at the
western edge of the Pacific, were formed from young mountains. The
Kamchatka mountain ranges contain active volcanoes. The major rivers of
Russia are the Volga and the Don. An interesting part of Siberia is Lake
Baikal. It is the deepest freshwater lake in the world. The lake is so deep
and has such a large surface area that it ...

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Added: 11/2/2005 11:15:58 PM
Category: Geography
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