Russia or the Russian Federation is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the largest country in the world by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing land borders with fourteen countries. It is the world's ninth-most populous country and Europe's most populous country. Russia is a highly urbanised country including 16 population centres with over a million inhabitants. Its capital and largest city is Moscow. Saint Petersburg is Russia's second-largest city and its cultural capital.
Russia's major exports include crude oil, petroleum products, natural gas, coal, metals like iron and nickel, fertilizers, and wheat, while its primary imports consist of machinery and equipment, vehicles, consumer goods, pharmaceuticals, chemical products, and foodstuffs; with the majority of Russia's export value coming from energy commodities like oil and gas.
Russia imports machinery and equipment, vehicles, consumer goods, foodstuffs, chemical products, industrial consumer goods.
