RUSSIA

JORGE FAJARDO RAMON MONCADA

JUAN HERNANDEZ NELBY EUCEDA

Landforms

Mountain ranges are found across Russia, with many of the major ones stretching along its southwestern, southeastern and and eastern borders.

Russia has more than 100,000 rivers with a length of 7 miles or greater, some of the world´s longest rivers flow through the vast lowland plains that dominate the Russian landscape.

The steppe region displays a broad range of treeless, grassy plains punctuated by mountain ranges and provides the best conditions for human settlement.

Accounting for over 60% of Russia, this forested region extends from its western borders then east towards the Pacific Ocean.

Tundra, stretching 4,349 miles from west to east the Russian Artic is a vast treeless and marshy plain, and is well known for its white nights through summer and days of near total darkness through winter.

Size

(6,592,800 sq mi) Russia is the largest country in the world, covering more than one-eight of the Earth´s inhabited land area.

Population

Russia is the world´s ninth most populous nation with 143 million people as 2012.

Location

Extending across the entirety of northern Asia and much of eastern Europe. Russia shares boundaries with the artic ocean on the north, northern pacific ocean on the west, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, the caspian sea, Azebaijan and Georgia on the south. and the black sea, Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Estonia, Finand on the west.