The Russian Federation (Member State)

[Area]

17.09 million square kilometers

[Population]

146 million

[Ethnic Groups]

Russia has 194 ethnic groups, and 77.7 percent of its population are Russians, while others are Tatar, Ukrainian, Bashkirs, Chuvash, Chechens, Armenian, Avars, Moldovan, Kazakh, Azerbaijani and Belarusian.

[Official Language]

Russian is the official language, but the Constitution gives the individual republics the right to establish their own state languages in addition to Russian.

[Capital]

Moscow