Question 4: the correct answer is Russia. Did you get it right? Award yourself 1 point.
Question 5 of 10
What is the largest hot desert in the world?
Why, in question 4: What is the largest country in the world by area?
The answer is Russia, with about 17 million square kilometers, almost twice that of Canada, which ranks second. Brazil is the fifth largest in the world, with about 8.5 million.
Eleven time zones
Russia stretches from Europe to the Pacific Ocean and has 11 time zones. When the day begins in the far east, it is still night in Moscow.
The country shares land borders with 14 countries, one of the highest numbers in the world, tied with China.
The Trans-Siberian Railway, which connects Moscow to Vladivostok, is more than 9,000 kilometers long and is the longest railway line in the world. The entire journey takes about a week.
Despite its size, much of the territory is covered by cold forests and tundra, and most of the population lives in the European part, west of the Ural Mountains.
Even though it is the largest country, Russia is not the most populous: it has about 145 million inhabitants, fewer than Brazil. The most populous countries in the world are India and China, each with more than 1.4 billion people.
