Map of Russia

Russia is located in Europe. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 60.0° N, 100.0° E. It shares land borders with 14 countries — Azerbaijan, Belarus, China, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, North Korea, Norway, Poland and Ukraine — and also has its own coastline. Within Europe, a continent of 45 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, Russia is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Russia shares land frontiers with the following 14 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Russia covers about 17,098,246 km² (6,601,670 sq mi). That makes it the 1st-largest country in the world by area and the largest country in Europe by area.

It is home to a population of roughly 146,028,325, the 9th-largest in the world and the 1st-largest in Europe, accounting for about 20% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Russia has an average population density of about 9 people per km². Among the 45 countries of Europe it stands 1st by population and 1st by area.

The seat of government is Moscow, and the official currency is the Russian ruble (RUB, ₽), and the main official language is Russian. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes time zones UTC+03:00, UTC+04:00, UTC+06:00, UTC+07:00, UTC+08:00, UTC+09:00, UTC+10:00, UTC+11:00 and UTC+12:00.

Russia carries the ISO country codes RU and RUS, dials on the international calling code +7 and uses the .ru, .su, .рф internet domain.

Russia shares its land borders with 14 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are China (capital Beijing, about 1,408,280,000 people), Poland (capital Warsaw, about 37,392,000 people), Ukraine (capital Kyiv, about 32,862,000 people), North Korea (capital Pyongyang, about 25,950,000 people), Kazakhstan (capital Astana, about 20,426,568 people), Azerbaijan (capital Baku, about 10,241,722 people), Belarus (capital Minsk, about 9,109,280 people), Finland (capital Helsinki, about 5,650,325 people), Norway (capital Oslo, about 5,606,944 people), Georgia (capital Tbilisi, about 4,000,921 people), Mongolia (capital Ulan Bator, about 3,544,835 people), Lithuania (capital Vilnius, about 2,894,886 people), Latvia (capital Riga, about 1,829,000 people) and Estonia (capital Tallinn, about 1,369,995 people).

By area, Russia is larger than 14 of these neighbours and smaller than 0 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 60.0° N, 100.0° E and opens at zoom level 3, framing Russia within Europe. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Moscow. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Russia lies about 6,660 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Russia spans 9 time zones, from UTC+03:00 to UTC+12:00, reflecting the spread of its territory across the globe. Each is expressed as an offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC); where a country covers several zones, the official local time can differ from one part of it to another.

The official currency is the Russian ruble (RUB, ₽).

The official language is Russian, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +7 and websites commonly use the .ru, .su, .рф internet domain.

In short, Russia is a coastal country in Europe, sharing land borders with 14 countries. Its capital is Moscow. Russia has a population of about 146,028,325 and covers around 17,098,246 km² (6,601,670 sq mi), ranking it 9th in the world by population and 1st by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Russia.

The flag of Russia is composed of three equal horizontal bands of white, blue and red.

The flag of Russia is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.