Russia

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Codes and identifiers

ISO alpha-2
RU
ISO alpha-3
RUS
ISO numeric
643
FIPS 10-4
RS
GeoNames ID
2017370

Key facts

Capital
Moscow
Area
17,100,000 km²
Population
144,478,050
Currency
Ruble (RUB)
Calling code
+7
Top-level domain
.ru
Official languages
ru,tt,xal,cau,ady,kv,ce,tyv,cv,udm,tut,mns,bua,myv,mdf,chm,ba,inh,kbd,krc,av,sah,nog

Continent

Name
Europe
Code
EU
In this dataset
54 countries

Europe in the country atlas

Location

Latitude
60
Longitude
100
Min latitude
41.19268056200009
Min longitude
-179.99999999999991
Max latitude
81.85871002800008
Max longitude
180

Boundary

Russia

The API call behind this page

Request

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  "https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/RU?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"

Response

{
  "data": {
    "area_sq_km": 17100000,
    "capital": "Moscow",
    "continent_code": "EU",
    "currency_code": "RUB",
    "iso3_code": "RUS",
    "iso_code": "RU",
    "name": "Russia",
    "population": 144478050
  }
}

Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.

Other endpoints for this country

  • /v1/countries/RU/regions
  • /v1/cities?country=RU
  • /v1/postal-codes?country=RU
  • /v1/timezones?country=RU
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Name in other languages

Arabic
روسيا
Chinese
俄罗斯
English
Russia
French
Russie
German
Russland
Hindi
रूस
Italian
Russia
Japanese
ロシア
Korean
러시아
Portuguese
Rússia
Russian
Россия
Spanish
Rusia
Total language variants
138

The API returns any of them with ?lang=.

Time zones

IANA ID UTC offset DST offset
Asia/Anadyr UTC+12:00 UTC+12:00
Asia/Barnaul UTC+07:00 UTC+07:00
Asia/Chita UTC+09:00 UTC+09:00
Asia/Irkutsk UTC+08:00 UTC+08:00
Asia/Kamchatka UTC+12:00 UTC+12:00
Asia/Khandyga UTC+09:00 UTC+09:00
Asia/Krasnoyarsk UTC+07:00 UTC+07:00
Asia/Magadan UTC+11:00 UTC+11:00
Asia/Novokuznetsk UTC+07:00 UTC+07:00
Asia/Novosibirsk UTC+07:00 UTC+07:00
Asia/Omsk UTC+06:00 UTC+06:00
Asia/Sakhalin UTC+11:00 UTC+11:00
Asia/Srednekolymsk UTC+11:00 UTC+11:00
Asia/Tomsk UTC+07:00 UTC+07:00
Asia/Ust-Nera UTC+10:00 UTC+10:00
Asia/Vladivostok UTC+10:00 UTC+10:00
Asia/Yakutsk UTC+09:00 UTC+09:00
Asia/Yekaterinburg UTC+05:00 UTC+05:00
Europe/Astrakhan UTC+04:00 UTC+04:00
Europe/Kaliningrad UTC+02:00 UTC+02:00
Europe/Kirov UTC+03:00 UTC+03:00
Europe/Moscow UTC+03:00 UTC+03:00
Europe/Samara UTC+04:00 UTC+04:00
Europe/Saratov UTC+04:00 UTC+04:00
Europe/Ulyanovsk UTC+04:00 UTC+04:00
Europe/Volgograd UTC+03:00 UTC+03:00

Postal code format

Format
######
Pattern
^(\d{6})$

First-level administrative regions

  • Moskva
  • Moscow Oblast
  • Krasnodarskiy Kray
  • Sankt-Peterburg
  • Sverdlovsk Oblast
  • Rostov Oblast
  • Bashkortostan
  • Tatarstan
  • Tyumen Oblast
  • Chelyabinsk Oblast
  • Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
  • Samara Oblast
  • Dagestan
  • Krasnoyarskiy Kray
  • Stavropol Kray
  • Novosibirsk Oblast
  • Kemerovo Oblast
  • Perm Krai
  • Volgograd Oblast
  • Saratovskaya Oblast
  • Irkutsk Oblast
  • Altayskiy Kray
  • Voronezh Oblast
  • Orenburg Oblast

24 of 83 shown, largest first

Largest cities

City Population
Moscow 10,381,222
Saint Petersburg 5,351,935
Novosibirsk 1,612,833
Yekaterinburg 1,495,066
Nizhniy Novgorod 1,259,013
Kazan 1,243,500
Chelyabinsk 1,202,371
Omsk 1,172,070
Samara 1,163,399
Rostov-on-Don 1,130,305

Coverage in this dataset

Cities
203,193
First-level regions
83
Postal codes
43,538
Name languages
138
Boundary polygon
Yes

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