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Koryaksky volcano towering over Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky on the Kamchatka Peninsula. Siberia spans an area of 13.1 million square kilometres (5,100,000 sq mi), covering the vast majority of Russia's total territory, and almost 9% of Earth's land surface (148,940,000 km 2, 57,510,000 sq mi).
Russia, the largest country in the world by area, has international land borders with fourteen sovereign states [1] as well as 2 narrow maritime boundaries with the United States and Japan. There are also two breakaway states bordering Russia, namely Abkhazia and South Ossetia .
The map shows the Russian Federation and neighboring countries with international borders, the national capital Moscow, major cities, main roads, railroads, and major airports.
Little Diomede Island (US, left) and Big Diomede Island (Russia, right) During the Cold War, the Bering Strait marked the border between the Soviet Union and the United States. The Diomede Islands—Big Diomede (Russia) and Little Diomede (US)—are only 3.8 km (2.4 mi) apart.
Siberia is a region in North Asia, separated from Russia's primary territory by the Ural Mountains in the west and bounded by the Pacific Ocean in the east. In the north and south, it is...
Land. Siberia extends from the Ural Mountains on the west to the Pacific Ocean on the east. From south to north it reaches from the borders of Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and China to the Arctic Ocean. Russian geographers have a narrower view of Siberia that excludes the Pacific seaboard, called the Russian Far East, from the territory.
Joint Operations Graphic - Russia and former Soviet Union (Aeronautical Charts) 1:250,000 U.S. National Imagery and Mapping Agency [Not for navigational use] This series includes parts of Russia and the Former Soviet Union
