The Federation Russian or Russia, is the most extensive country of the world, extending between Europe and Asia. Its coast extends of the Arctic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean of the North, and has in addition coast in inner seas like the Baltic Sea, the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.
Russia limits with the following countries (beginning by the noroccidental part and following the sense in opposition to the small hands of the clock): Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Bielorrusia, Lituania, Poland, the Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazajstán, China, Mongolia and North Korea . Like main successor of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Russia continues being an influential country, in individual in the Community of Estados Independientes (CEI), integrated by many other states of the old USSR. The Russian Federation extends through most of the north of the supercontinent Eurasia reason why a great variety of landscapes and climates exist. Most of the landscape consists of enormous plains, as much in the European part as in the Asian part that widely are known like Siberia. These plains are predominantly steppe to the dense hoisted south and to the north, with the tundra throughout the coast of the north. Mountainous chains throughout the borders of the south are, like the Caucasus (containing Monte Elbrus, the highest point of Russia with 5,633 ms) and the Altai, and in the part this, like the Mountain range Verjoyansk or the volcanos on Kamchatka. Remarkable they are Montes Urales in the central part that is the main division between Europe and Asia. Russia has an extensive coastline of more than 37,000 kilometers throughout the oceans Arctic and Pacific, as well as seas inner like the Baltic Sea, Caspian Black and.
The smallest seas are part of the oceans; the Sea of Barents, White Sea, Sea Kara, Sea Laptev and Sea of Eastern Siberia are part of the Arctic, whereas the Sea of Bering, the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of the East (also call Sea of Japan) belong to the Pacific Ocean. The found main islands in them include New Zembla, the Earth of Francisco Jose, the Islands of the New Siberia, Island of Wrangel, the Islands Kuriles and Sajalín. Many great rivers flow through the plains ending at the Russian coasts. In Europe these are the Volga, Don, Kama, Oka and the Dvina of the North, while other rivers are born in Russia, but end at other countries, like the Dnieper and the Western Dvina. In Asia are the Ob rivers, Irtich, Yenisei, Angara, Lena and Amur. The main lakes include the Baikal lake, Ladoga lake and Onega lake.