GEOGRAGHY OF EUROPE AND RUSSIA

Geography of Europe and Russia

Geography of Europe and Russia

Physical Geography of Russia:

Extreme northern point of Russia - Cape Fligely on Rudolf Island archipelago Franz Josef Land 81 ° 51 '. Sh. The extreme eastern point - Ratmanov Island in the Bering Strait (west of the two Diomede Islands, 169 ° 0' s. Etc. Extreme northern and eastern mainland point in Russia: Cape Chelyuskin on the Taimyr Peninsula (77 ° 43 '. Sh.). The extreme southern point of Russia is 41 ° 11 ' Sh. Situated to the south-west of Mount Bazarduzu, on the border of Dagestan and Azerbaijan. The extreme western point lies in the Kaliningrad region for 19 ° 38 'century. etc., on the Baltic Spit Gdansk Bay Baltic Sea, but is an enclave of Kaliningrad region and the main territory of Russia begins to the east, at 27 ° 17 'century. Thus, the extent of Russian territory from north to south over 4,000 km from west to east - close to 10 000 km. (McCann, 2004)

The total length of the borders of Russia is 60 933 km. The country has land borders with Kazakhstan (7598.6 km), China (4209.3 km), Mongolia (3,485 km), Ukraine (2,245.8 km), Finland (1325.8 km), Belarus (1239 km), Abkhazia (245.0 km), South Ossetia (74.0 km), Georgia (561.0 miles without Abkhazia and South Ossetia, with them - 879.9 km), Estonia (466.8 km), Azerbaijan (350 km), Lithuania (288.4 km), Poland (236.3 km), Latvia (270.5 km), Norway (219.1 km ), Korea (39.4 km); maritime border with Japan (194.3 km) and USA (49 km).

Despite the fact that Russia is on the area is the largest country of the world, climatic and soil conditions in much of its territory is not conducive to agriculture.(McCann, 2004)

Physical Geography of Europe:

Europe is the western part of Eurasia, ...