Record #00028Human Society archive
China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs country profile records Russia's territory as 17,098,200 km², the largest of any country in the world.
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about17,098,200km²
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Russia spans Europe and Asia, extending about 9,000 km east to west and 4,000 km north to south.
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991, the Russian Federation became a fully independent state and the sole successor of the USSR, with the largest territory in the world.
The constitution adopted by referendum on 12 December 1993 named the state the Russian Federation.
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