Source: The World Factbook
| Area: | 17,075,200 sq km |
| Capital: | Moscow |
| Geographic coordinates: | 60 00 N, 100 00 E |
| Climate: | ranges from steppes in the south through humid continental in much of European Russia; subarctic in Siberia to tundra climate in the polar north; winters vary from cool along Black Sea coast to frigid in Siberia; summers vary from warm in the steppes to cool along Arctic coast |
| Government: | federation |
| Currency: | Russian ruble (RUR) |
| Literacy(%): | 99.6 |
| Languages: | Russian, many minority languages |
| Ethnicity/race: | Russian, Tatar, Ukrainian, Bashkir, Chuvash, other or unspecified |
| Religions: | Russian Orthodox, Muslim, other |
| Industries: | complete range of mining and extractive industries producing coal, oil, gas, chemicals, and metals; all forms of machine building from rolling mills to high-performance aircraft and space vehicles; defense industries including radar, missile production, and advanced electronic components, shipbuilding; road and rail transportation equipment; communications equipment; agricultural machinery, tractors, and construction equipment; electric power generating and transmitting equipment; medical and scientific instruments; consumer durables, textiles, foodstuffs, handicrafts |
| Natural resources: | wide natural resource base including major deposits of oil, natural gas, coal, and many strategic minerals, timber |