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- Capital
- Moscow
- Population
- 142,893,540 (July 2006 est.)
- Area
- total: 17,075,200 sq km
land: 16,995,800 sq km
water: 79,400 sq km
approximately 1.8 times the size of the US - Government
- federation
- Money
- Russian ruble (RUR)
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- Climate
- ranges from steppes in the south through humid continental inmuch 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
- Language
- Russian, many minority languages
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