Is Russia an Asian country or a European country?

Russia is located at 30 ~180 e, 50 ~ 80 N, spanning Europe and Asia, in the east of Europe and the north of the Asian continent, and most of its European territory is the eastern European plain. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean in the north, the Pacific Ocean in the east, the Atlantic Ocean in the west, the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Finland in the northwest.

Land neighbors are Norway and Finland in the northwest, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Belarus in the west, Ukraine in the southwest, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan in the south, and Heilongjiang Province, Mongolia and North Korea in China in the southeast (Lithuania and Poland only border Kaliningrad, an enclave outside Russia). The coastline is 37,653 kilometers long.

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Russia is considered as a European country in the traditional sense for the following reasons:

1, where the capital is located.

The capital is the heart of a country, that is, the ruling core of a country, representing the enterprising direction of a country.

So, which continent does the country belong to?

As the capital of Russia and the heart of Russia in Europe, Moscow is a typical European country.

Although today's Russia is not accepted by western European countries, successive Russian leaders have always aimed at integrating into the European family. The famous Tsar Peter I in Russian history even went to Western Europe to learn advanced scientific and cultural knowledge in disguise and came back to serve the motherland.

In order to integrate into Europe, Peter I moved the capital to St. Petersburg, which is farther north, as an important base for marching into Europe, which reflected the good wishes of the Russian people to integrate into Europe.

It can be said that the existence of the will of the capital as a national leader has extremely important symbolic significance. Although Russia has not been accepted by Europe, it has been proved by actions that it is a European country!

2. Population distribution.

The Ural Mountains divide Russia into two unequal parts, with Europe accounting for a quarter of the whole Russia and North Asia accounting for three quarters of Russia. However, the population is just the opposite, with three quarters in Europe and only one quarter in North Asia.

The reason for this is that Siberia is not only high in latitude, but also high in altitude, and it is a truly unsuitable residential area.

Today's northern hemisphere cold pole is located in Oymyakon, a mountainous area in eastern Siberia. In addition to the high latitude and altitude, there is another important reason why it appears here, that is, the terrain of Oymyakan region is inclined from south to north, and the terrain is high in the south and low in the north, which leads to the polar easterly wind of the Arctic Ocean blowing to Siberia at will.

In fact, the whole Siberia is basically like this, so the ob river, Yenisei River and Lena River all flow into the Arctic Ocean from south to north.

Because of this cold climate, Siberia's frozen soil is widely distributed, and it is impossible to achieve food independence, making Siberia's population very scarce.

In contrast, although the eastern European plain is also a continental climate, the water vapor in western Europe can be affected because of the low altitude, resulting in the latitude of eastern Europe being similar to Siberia, but far more suitable than Siberia.

Because of this population distribution, Eastern Europe has become the center of Russia.

Few countries in the world take the initiative to move their capitals to sparsely populated places, so Russia is a traditional European country!

3. Traditional cognition.

Russians are Eastern Slavs with Mongolian colors. Together with Yugoslavia, Celts and Germans, * * * has become a big national family in Europe.

Before the decline of the Mongolian Golden Horde, Russia was just a tiny Moscow principality. After the decline of the Golden Horde, the Principality of Moscow began to rise rapidly and became the largest country in Eastern Europe.

1582 Siberia was violently developed after Cossacks crossed the Urals. Because Russia has been very backward in development, it is difficult for Russia to compete with European countries for territory.

However, Russia's expansion in Asia is extremely smooth. Except for falling behind in the process of competing with the former dynasty, most of the time, Russia's expansion can be described as smooth sailing.

So Siberia is more like a Russian colony, a colony closely connected with the mainland.

Due to its connection with the mainland, when the overseas colonies of colonial empires such as Britain, France, Portugal and Jose successively fell, Russia retained a large area of colonies.

Russia's rule over the colonies was extremely bloody. Generally, after killing all the aborigines, Slavs were moved into the occupied areas, which made the rule of Siberia extremely stable.

As for the relationship between the colony and the mainland, we can refer to Denmark and Greenland. We should know that Greenland, the largest island in the world, belongs to Denmark, although it is located in the northern part of North America. Greenland is much larger than Denmark. Then the question is, does Denmark belong to Europe or North America?

There is no doubt that it is Europe, why. Because Greenland belongs to Denmark, but it is only a colony of Denmark.

Therefore, whether Europe hates it or not, Russia is a real European country!

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Russia