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This article badly needs an image. --<sub style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">[[User:Piotrus|Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus]]&#124;[[User talk:Piotrus|<span style="color:#7CFC00;background:#006400;"> reply here</span>]]</sub> 20:04, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

== Land border ==

"Table of countries with a LAND border with Russia":
USA: WATER
lol --[[Special:Contributions/90.226.181.130|90.226.181.130]] ([[User talk:90.226.181.130|talk]]) 19:20, 11 April 2014 (UTC)


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==Hypothetical Border Change==
Here's an interesting, somewhat [[alternative history]]-esque scenario. This is not a change I am suggesting making to this page, but a fascinating idea to explore nonetheless:

While it's highly unlikely that Russia's borders will ever change drastically, let alone on this scale, it would be interesting to explore how differently its borders would look, had certain historical events happened or not.
For Instance:

1. Despite having fought the [[USSR]] in the [[Winter War]], [[Finland]] would have never experienced any territory loss or border change in the years following [[World War II]] and the various treaties that mandated which country would receive which areas (i.e. Karelia, Petsamo, etc.). Thus, [[Norway]] would lose its border with Russia.

2. Russia would give up [[Kaliningrad]], and either return it to [[Germany]], whether as part of the [[German Democratic Republic|GDR]] or at the end of the Cold War, or instead give it to [[Lithuania]].This would cut off Lithuania and [[Poland]]'s border with the Kaliningrad enclave.

3. The current Russian territories of [[Rostov Oblast]], [[Republic of Kalmykia]], and [[Astrakhan Oblast]], as well as every territory south of there would become its own sovereign state. Supposedly, as part of the [[breakup of the Soviet Union]], one might see some of these states merge, e.g. Kalmykia and Astrakhan Oblast to become a sovereign Kalmykia.

4. The southern half of [[Sakhalin Oblast]] would return to [[Japan]], as well as the [[Kuril Islands]].

5. Finally, although the [[United States]] had purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867, Russia would lose its border with the U.S. due to the break-off of [[Kamchatka Krai]] and [[Chukotka Autonomous Okrug]], also following the Soviet Union's collapse.
 
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;Table of countries with a land border with Russia<br> (listed anti-clockwise around Russia).
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!Sea
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||{{Flag|Rostov}}|| || |
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||{{Flag|Kalmykia|name=Kalmykia}}|| || |
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||{{Flag|Azerbaijan}}|| || |
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||{{Flag|Kazakhstan}}|| || |
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||{{Flag|China}}|| || |
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||{{Flag|Mongolia}}|| || |
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||{{Flag|North Korea}}|| || |
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||{{Flag|Kamchatka Krai}}|| || |
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||{{Flag|Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
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 ([[User talk:Wiscipidier|talk]]) 16:19, 1 July 2020 (UTC)-[[User:Wiscipidier|Wiscipidier]]

== Delete this pointless article ==

How does a big list of Russia's federal subdivisions add anything of value that cannot be found on the individual 'country X-Russia Border' pages?? I'd say delete this article altogether.[[User:WisDom-UK|WisDom-UK]] ([[User talk:WisDom-UK|talk]]) 23:09, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

== Table ==

The table is labeled as a "'''Table of countries with a land border with Russia (listed counterclockwise around Russia)'''," but the United States and Japan don't have a land border with Russia, only a maritime one. Should something be done about this?
Qwerty3521 -- [[User_talk:Qwerty3521|Message me here]] 22:08, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

== Kaliningrad ==

sorry if this has already been settled, but  if not, why is Kaliningrad not part of this focus?  thank you. [[User:Zszsz|es]] ([[User talk:Zszsz|talk]]) 14:43, 15 February 2022 (UTC)

== Data in table ==

Anyone know the source of the data in the country table in the 'Internationally recognized' section? The border with Finland is shown as 1,271.8 km, whereas in [[Finland–Russia border]] this is shown as 1,340 km. The latter is at least backed up by a source, so we should probably go with that unless someone has a better source to support the 1,271 figure? (But there's still the wider point of how do we know ''any'' of these are correct, since the table is unreferenced?) -- [[User:DoubleGrazing|DoubleGrazing]] ([[User talk:DoubleGrazing|talk]]) 12:41, 31 October 2024 (UTC)