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Geography

Location: Northern Asia (that part west of the Urals is sometimes included with Europe), bordering the Arctic Ocean, between Europe and the North Pacific Ocean

Area:
total area: 17,075,200 sq km
land area: 16,995,800 sq km
comparative area: slightly more than 1.8 times the size of the US

Land boundaries: total 20,139 km, Azerbaijan 284 km, Belarus 959 km, China (southeast)3,605 km, China (south) 40 km, Estonia 290 km, Finland 1,313 km, Georgia723 km, Kazakhstan 6,846 km, North Korea 19 km, Latvia 217 km, Lithuania (Kaliningrad Oblast) 227 km, Mongolia 3,441 km, Norway 167 km, Poland (KaliningradOblast) 432 km, Ukraine 1,576 km

Coastline: 37,653 km


People

Population: 149,909,089 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 22% (female 16,208,640; male 16,784,017)
15-64 years: 66% (female 50,711,209; male 48,247,101)
65 years and over: 12% (female 12,557,447; male 5,400,675)

Population growth rate: 0.2% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 12.64 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 11.36 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 0.7 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 26.4 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 69.1 years
male: 64.1 years
female: 74.35 years

Total fertility rate: 1.82 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Russian 81.5%, Tatar 3.8%, Ukrainian 3%, Chuvash 1.2%, Bashkir 0.9%, Byelorussian 0.8%, Moldavian 0.7%, other 8.1%

Religions: Russian Orthodox, Muslim, other

Languages: Russian, other

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1989)
total population: 98%
male: 100%
female: 97%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Russian Federation
conventional short form: Russia

Type: federation

Capital: Moscow

Independence: 24 August 1991 (from Soviet Union)

Constitution: adopted 12 December 1993


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $721.2 billion

National product real growth rate: -15%

National product per capita: $4,820

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 10%

Unemployment rate: 7.1%

Electricity:
capacity: 213,100,000 KW
production: 876 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 5,800 kWh



Olympic Factoid
Pin trading was one of the most popular Olympic sports, with more than 1.2 million pins changing hands during the Games in the Coca Cola Pin Trading Center at Centennial Olympic Park.