Located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere, most of the territory of Russia is located in the Eastern Hemisphere, only the eastern part of the Chukotka Autonomous Region is located in the Western Hemisphere. It is washed by the waters of the Pacific and Arctic Oceans, as well as the Baltic, Black, and Azov seas of the Atlantic Ocean, having the longest coastline in the world (37,653 km). Russia is located in the north of the mainland of Eurasia, occupying most of Eastern Europe and the whole north of Asia. The Ural Mountains and the Kumo-Manych Depression divide Russia into European and Asian parts.
The structure of the Russian Federation consists of 85 subjects, 46 of which are called regions, 22 - republics, 9 - edges, 3 - cities of federal significance, 4 - autonomous districts and 1 - autonomous region. There are about 157 thousand settlements in the country.
According to the results of the nationwide census conducted in October 2010, the population of Russia was 142,905,200 people. Russia, therefore, is the most populated country in Europe and ranks ninth in the world in terms of the number of inhabitants.
Under Ivan III, Moscow became the center of North-Eastern Russia, uniting into a single state; the two-headed eagle becomes a symbol of the continuity of the power of the Byzantine Empire and Russia.
The national flag of the Russian Federation is the official state symbol of the Russian Federation. The national flag of the Russian Federation is a rectangular panel of three equally-sized horizontal stripes: the top is white, the middle is blue, and the bottom is red.