Russia Relief Map
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Russia occupies the entire area of northern Asia, and takes up a good
portion of the easternmost part of northern Europe. The largest
country in the world, it comprises 21 republics. Russia is made up
of plains and mountains. The Ural Mountains divide European Russia
in the west from the Siberian Plain in the east.
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European Russia is essentially made up of a vast, fertile plain, the East
Europe Plain. This is Russia's most populated area, and is also
where most of its agriculture and industry take place. Because of
the harsh climate in other areas, agriculture is prevalent on
the southern part of the plain, where grains used for cereals are
grown. Most of Russia's lands are inhospitable to growing crops,
leaving only about 10% for cultivation. Russia's large population
combined with its rather limited agricultural opportunities mean that
Russia is able to grow only about half of the grains they need; the rest
are imported from other countries. Some farming, including poultry,
cattle, and dairy farming, is done on the western part of these plains.
The Siberian Plain, which is located to the east of the Ural Mountains,
is mostly flat and treeless. Central Siberia is made up of plateaus
that rise into the mountain ranges that border China and Mongolia.
There are lowlands on either side of these plateaus, to the north and the
east. The Pacific "Ring of Fire," which includes the Kamchatka
Peninsula and the Kuril Islands, is located south of the Bering Sea, and
is so named because the area is home to approximately 30 active volcanoes.
Northern Russia is mostly arctic tundra, while the southwest is home to forested areas interspersed with semidesert areas.