Includes Russia and other 111 independent states.
Headquarters: Minsk in Belarus (Europe).
RUSSIA
Area: 1, 70, 75,000sq.km (70% of the total area of former USSR)
Population: 147.2 million
Extent: East –West o over 9600 Km,
North –south – 4800 km.
Size: largest country iof the world, in area.
Capital: moocow (Europe).
Situation: lies in Europe as well as Asia, extends from the Baltic Sea in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east, and from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the borders of Turkey and Iran in the south. It touches fourteen other countries and crosses eight time zones. to the west of the Ural Mountains, is the European portion, Popularly known as Russia while the eastern Asiatic region is commonly called Siberia.
MOSCOW – GORKI REGION
Oldest and the greatest of soviet industrial region in the European part of Russian.
MOSCOW
