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Russia is the largest country on Earth. Modern Russia was founded in December 1991. No country in the world can boast of such long land and sea borders. The geographic center of the Russian Federation is located in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. The state border of Russia is guarded by the border guard service.

Recognized neighbors with land and sea borders

Answer the question about the exact number of neighborsRussia on the world map is definitely not. It all depends on what and how to count. If you take the northwestern corner of Russia as the starting point, then the neighboring Scandinavian countries are Norway and Finland. The common border is also present with all the Baltic countries: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The latter, like Poland, are Russia's neighbors only thanks to the Kaliningrad region - a small enclave separated from the territory of "big Russia" by the borders of these countries. Finish the list of neighbors on the European side of the union state of Belarus and Ukraine. In the Caucasus region, Russia's neighbors are two states: Georgia and Azerbaijan. Further the line stretches across the countries of Asia. The first in the list is Kazakhstan. With it, Russia has the longest border - more than seven thousand kilometers. It is followed by the People's Republic of China, the Mongolian Republic and a short, about twenty kilometers, stretch of the border with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Unrecognized countries and countries with maritime boundaries

Many countries from the previous list havesea, and land borders with Russia. However, the two countries border on the Russian Federation only by sea, without touching land. This is Japan and the United States of America, the section with which passes through the Bering Strait. Two more countries can be written with some reservations in the neighbors of Russia: the Republic of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. In fact, these are independent states, but not all countries recognize their sovereignty, therefore they are in a "legally-suspended" state. Thus, depending on the method of counting, the neighbors of the Russian Federation can be considered a different number of countries. The border with Russia has fourteen states. If you add to them states with maritime boundaries, their number will increase to sixteen. If we take into account, among other things, the republics recognized by the whole world community, then the Russian Federation has 18 neighboring countries.