Russia, the largest country in the world by area, has international land borders with fourteen sovereign states as well as 2 narrow maritime boundaries with the United States and Japan. There are also two breakaway states bordering Russia, namely Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The country has an internationally recognized land border running 22407 km in total, and has the second-longest land border of any country in the world, after China (22457 km ). The borders of the Russian Federation (formerly the Russian SFSR) were mostly drawn since 1956 (save for minor border changes, e.g., with China), and have remained the same after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. In 2014, Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimean peninsula in a move that remains internationally unrecognized. As a transcontinental country in Eurasia, Russia shares borders in both Europe and Asia. Out of the 18 total land borders and maritime boundaries, 12 are in Europe. These countries are Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China, North Korea and sea borders with Japan, Turkey and the United States of America

Overview

Russia shares land borders with 14 countries owing to its large expanse, tied with China in being more than any other state in the world, but there are sea boundaries with two more countries.

Internationally recognized

Approximately from West to East:

Partially recognized

Border details

Below is a list of subjects with both neighbouring regions of Russia with them, and in the neighbouring regions of foreign countries.

Northwestern Federal District

** Republic of Karelia** ** Komi Republic** ** Arkhangelsk Oblast** ** Vologda Oblast** ** Kaliningrad Oblast** ** Leningrad Oblast** ** Murmansk Oblast** ** Novgorod Oblast** ** Pskov Oblast** ** Saint Petersburg** ** Nenets Autonomous Okrug**

Volga Federal District

Bashkortostan Mari El Mordovia Tatarstan Udmurtia Chuvashia Perm Krai Kirov Oblast Nizhny Novgorod Oblast Orenburg Oblast Penza Oblast Samara Oblast Saratov Oblast Ulyanovsk Oblast

Southern Federal District

Adygea Kalmykia Krasnodar Krai Astrakhan Oblast Volgograd Oblast Rostov Oblast

North Caucasian Federal District

Dagestan Ingushetia Kabardino-Balkaria Karachay-Cherkessia North Ossetia–Alania Chechnya Stavropol Krai

Ural Federal District

Kurgan Oblast Sverdlovsk Oblast Tyumen Oblast Chelyabinsk Oblast Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug

Siberian Federal District

Altai Republic Buryatia Tuva Khakassia Altai Krai Zabaykalsky Krai Krasnoyarsk Krai Irkutsk Oblast Kemerovo Oblast Novosibirsk Oblast Omsk Oblast Tomsk Oblast

Far Eastern Federal District

Sakha Republic Kamchatka Krai Primorsky Krai Amur Oblast Magadan Oblast Sakhalin Oblast Jewish Autonomous Oblast Chukotka Autonomous Okrug

Crimea

The status of the Crimea and of the city of Sevastopol is currently under dispute between Russia and Ukraine; Ukraine and the majority of the international community consider the Crimea to be an autonomous republic of Ukraine and Sevastopol to be one of Ukraine's cities with special status, while Russia, on the other hand, considers the Crimea to be a federal subject of Russia and Sevastopol to be one of Russia's three federal cities since the March 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia. In 2022, Russia declared the annexation of Ukraine's Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia regions, which remains internationally unrecognized. Republic of Crimea Sevastopol