Russian Geography

Here is a website with some good, clear statitics on Russia.

http://geography.about.com/library/cia/blcrussia.htm

You can find out things like this:

Area:
total: 17,075,200 sq km

land: 16,995,800 sq km

water: 79,400 sq km

Area - comparative:
approximately 1.8 times the size of the US

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.

Teacher Karl