Thus Russia is also called an intercontinental country.
According to the official website of U.S Department of State, the total area that comes under the Russian Federation has been estimated to be seventeen million Kmē. The capital city of the country is Moscow which is considered to be one of the most modern cities of the world.
The total population of people that live in Moscow city has been calculated to be near about 8.3 million. The other important city of Russia is Saint Petersberg (formerly known as Leningrad during the Soviet era) which is the house of around 4.6 million people.
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The population of Russia was hovering just below the one hundred and forty three million mark as per the 2006 census. But population growth rate of the country shows that it has a declining trend. Russia is characterized by high rate of literacy where almost 99.6 % people of the population are literate. The official language of the Russian Federation is Russian.
Russian economy has started posting good economic results during the last couple of years with a rate of economic growth amounting to almost 6.6 %. At the end of financial year 2006, the total GDP of Russia has been calculated to be more than seven hundred and thirty billion US Dollars.
