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Russia 

(Russian: Россия) is the largest country in the world, covering over 17,125,192 km2


(6,612,074 sq mi), and encompassing more than one-eighth of Earth's inhabited land
area. Russia extends across eleven time zones, and has the most borders of any country in the
world, with sixteen sovereign nations.[c]
Russia is a transcontinental country stretching vastly over two continents, Europe and Asia.[1] It
spans the northernmost edge of Eurasia, and has the world's fourth-longest coastline, at
37,653 km (23,396 mi).[d][3] Russia, alongside Canada, is one of the world's only two countries with
a coast along three oceans,[e][1] due to which it has links with over thirteen marginal seas.[f][4] It lies
between latitudes 41° and 82° N, and longitudes 19° E and 169° W. Russia is larger than three
continents of the world,[g] and has the same surface area as Pluto.

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