Russia: rə-shə
Population: 154,000,000
Primary Languages: Russian (offi cial), English
Provinces: Twenty-three oblasts
Government Type: Bureaucratic Dictatorship
Bordering Countries: Belarus, Estonia, Imperial Japan, Latvia, Manchuria,
Mongolia, Poland, Scandinavian Union, Transcaucasia, Turkestan,
Ukraine, and Yakut
Geography: Coniferous Forest, Steppes, and Tundra
Notable Features:Caucasus and Ural mountain ranges,
Valley of Geyser