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)
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