The total length of Russia's borders is the longest in the world, because our country is the largest on the planet. In terms of the number of neighbors, we are also ahead of everyone - 18 countries border on the Russian Federation.
And our country, like no other, has enclaves, exclaves and semi-exclaves, that is, territories belonging to the Russian Federation, but not having a common border with it - taken out on the territory of other countries.
Some discrepancies
62,262 kilometers is the total length of Russia's land and sea borders. It is divided as follows - the sea border, stretching for 37,636.6 kilometers, is much longer than the land border, equal to 24,625.3 km. It should be noted that the data in some sources differ. Inconsistencies occur due to the unrecognized republics and the annexation of Crimea. Of the total length of the maritime borders, most, namely 19,724.1 km, falls on the Arctic sector, that is, on the northern border of Russia.
North border
The eastern border also runs exclusively through the seas, but already in the Pacific Ocean - it accounts for 16,997.9 km of the total water border of Russia. The length of Russia's maritime borders is one of the longest inthe world. Its shores are washed by 13 seas, and according to this indicator, our country is the first in the world. On what seas do the cordons of our country pass? In the north, Russia is washed by the seas of the Arctic Ocean. Located from west to east, they follow in this order: Barents and Kara, Laptev and East Siberian.
The most eastern is the Chukchi Sea. In the western part there is also the White Sea, washing Russia, but it is completely inland. Except for a part of the westernmost Barents, all the rest are covered with pack ice floes (slid down from the mainland glaciers), which makes it very difficult for ships to pass through them and is possible only with the help of nuclear icebreakers. True, now the ice is melting so much that unknown islands appear from under them. The entire territory from the northern shores to the Pole belongs to Russia. And all the islands, except for a few in the Svalbard archipelago, belong to our country.
Eastern Frontiers
The maritime borders themselves run at a distance of 22 km from the coastline. In addition, there is such a thing as a maritime economic zone. It extends from the mainland and the islands for 370 km. What does it mean? And the fact that ships from all over the world can sail in these waters, and only Russia has the right to extract minerals from the bottom of the seas and conduct other economic activities.
The length of Russia's borders in the east, as mentioned above, is 16,997.9 km. Here the borders pass through the following seas: the Bering, Okhotsk and Japanese, which does not freeze in winter, related toto the Pacific Ocean. The eastern neighbors are the USA and Japan. The border with the United States, the length of which is 49 km, passes through the Bering Strait between the islands of Romanov and Kruzenshtern. The first belongs to Russia, the second to the United States. The border between Russia and Japan runs along the La Perouse Strait with a total length of 194.3 km.
Borders along the western and southern seas
The nine seas of the north and east are listed. What are the names of the other four along which the border passes? B altic, Caspian, Black and Azov. With what countries does Russia border on these seas? The total length of the western border of Russia is 4222.2 km, of which 126.1 km fall on the coast of the B altic Sea. The northern part of this sea freezes in winter, and the movement of ships is possible only with the help of icebreakers. "Window to Europe" allows you to trade with all the B altic countries.
On the Black and Azov Seas, Russia borders on Ukraine, on the Caspian - on Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. It should be noted that the total length of Russia's borders includes 7,000 km along rivers and 475 km along lakes.
Length of frontiers with neighbors in the west
The land border runs mainly along the west and south of Russia. Here neighbors are Norway and Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine and Belarus. Poland borders the Kaliningrad region of Russia. In the south, we are neighbors with Abkhazia, Georgia (its common border with Russia is torn in the middle by the border of South Ossetia), Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Chinaand North Korea in the southeast.
The total length of Russia's land borders is divided between neighbors as follows. With Norway, the land border is 195.8 km, of which along the seas, rivers and lakes - 152.8 km. Our land lines with Finland stretched for 1271.8 km (180.1). With Estonia - 324 km (235.3), with Latvia - 270.5 km (133.3), with Lithuania (Kaliningrad region) - 266 km (233.1). The Kaliningrad region has a border with Poland at 204.1 km (0.8). Further on, a completely land border with Belarus stretches for 1239 km. The length of the borders of Russia with Ukraine is 1925.8 km (425.6).
Southern neighbors
The border with Georgia is 365 km, Abkhazia and South Ossetia account for 329 km. The Georgian-Russian border itself broke up into two parts - western and eastern, between which the 70-kilometer Russian-South Ossetian border was wedged. The Russian-Azerbaijani border is 390.3 km. The longest border between Russia and Kazakhstan is 7512.8 (1576.7 km passes through the seas, rivers and lakes). 3485 km - the length of the Russian-Mongolian borders. Further on, the border with China stretches for 4209, 3 km, and with the DPRK it is only 30 km. 183 thousand border guards guard the borders of our vast country.
