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Russia is a federal republic with almost 141 million inhabitants. It lies partly in Europe and partly in Asia. Russia has 14 neighboring countries and adjacent to many seas. The largest country in the world has a very diverse landscape including the East European Plain, the Ural mountains, hill areas, tundra, needle forests, grasslands, steppes, the Siberian highlands and the Caucasus. Furthermore, a long coastline, many rivers, lakes and a number of islands. The capital, Moscow has 10 million inhabitants and many churches, cathedrals and museums and a beautiful subway network. Furthermore, the Bolsjojtheater, the seat of the Duma, Kolomenskoje and the skyscrapers of Stalin. Other major cities are St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Nizhny, Novgorod, Yekaterinburg, Samara, Omsk, Kazan, Volgograd and Rostov. At the World Heritage list of UNESCO, the Kizji Pogost, the Kremlin and Red Square, the monuments of Veliky Novgorod, Vladimir and Suzdal. The culture and history of Solovki, the architecture of the Triniti Sergius Lavra, the Komi, the Baikal lake, the volcanoes of Kamchatka, the mountains of Altai, the Ferapontov Monastery, the Kremlin of Kazan, the Curonian Spit, the Sikhote-Alingebergte, Novodevitsj the monastery, the basin of Uvs Nuur, the Wrangel Island Reserve, the arc of Struve and Derbent.

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