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Russia

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Map of Russia

Location

my country is located east of the Eural mountains from asia. Russia stretches over a vast expanse of Asia and Europe. In general, 1/3 of it is located in Europe and 2/3 in Asia. Russia is the largest country in the world, covering almost twice the territory of the next-largest country, Canada, and has the world's eighth-largest population. Russia shares land borders with the following countries (counter-clockwise from northwest to southeast): Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, and North Korea. It is also close to the United States and Japan across relatively small stretches of water (the Bering Strait and La Pérouse Strait, respectively).

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Physical Geography

Despite its few mountain ranges, massed around the edge of the territory, Russia is mainly characterized by its perfectly flat stretches of plain and plateau. Five times the size of France, the "Russian Tableland" between the Byelorussian frontier and the Ural mountains varies in altitude by only 300 meters (1000 feet), and the difference between the highest and lowest points is less than 500 meters (1667 feet).

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Human Geography

The Russian Family

. The Russian family is dependent upon all its members.
. Most families live in small apartments, often with 2 or 3 generations sharing little space.
. Most families are small, often with only one child because most women must also work outside of the house in addition to bearing sole responsibility for household and childrearing chores

Russian is the official language but they are required to learn english because in the buisness world

it's really important to know it.

Russia has hundreds of languages and supports most of them, sending linguists to document them and invent (mostly - in 1920-1960) writing systems for them (all Cyrillic, of course) and making them local official languages. The south border is lined with Turkic, Mongolian, and Tungusic; the north with Finnic and Samoyed. The southwest corner has a variety of Caucasian languages; the northeast has the few Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages.

Some foods they eat are:

Pelmeni (meat-filled dumplings)

Blini (crêpes)

Black bread

Borsch (red soup/beetroot soup)

Piroshki (Meat or cabbage pie)

Golubsti (Cabbage rolls)

Ikra Baklazhanaya (aubergine caviar)

Shi (cabbage soup)

Vareniki (Ukrainian dumplings)

Vinegret (beet and boiled vegetable salad)

Olivier (potato salad)

Shashlyk (various kebabs from the Caucasus republics of the former Soviet Union)

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Movements

Traveling in Russia by car can be difficult. Roads may be poorly marked, if marked at all, and poorly maintained — especially outside the cities and towns. Car rental services are only starting to develop in major cities such as Moscow or Saint Petersburg, and are expensive.

Crossing the border by car is a peculiar entertainment.

There is no doubt that car travel is the best way to see the country, but it is a risky enterprise which is recommended only for the brave and capable.

They mostly use trains, buses, and ferrys to get around.

Impact

Many tourist are concerned about the environment. What has your country done to protect the environment? Are there any eco-friendly tourist destinations? Are there any organizations dedicated to the environment that tourist can become involved with?

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