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Located in the northern and middle latitudes a of the Northern Hemisphere, most of Russia is much closer to the North Pole than to the equator.
The country's 17. 1 million square kilometers include one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area.
Its European portion, which occupies a substantial part of continental Europe, is home to most of Russia's industrial and agricultural activity.
It was here, roughly between the Dnieper River and the Ural Mountains, that the Russian Empire took shape.
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