{"id":125191,"date":"2022-11-11T14:14:58","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T08:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=125191"},"modified":"2022-11-11T14:15:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T08:45:00","slug":"russia-borders-and-resources-upsc-daily-important-topic-11-november-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/russia-borders-and-resources-upsc-daily-important-topic-11-november-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia: Borders and Resources&#8211; UPSC Daily Important Topic| 11 November 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Russia: Borders and Resources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2713Russia is bounded to the north and east by the Arctic and Pacific oceans, and it has small frontages in the northwest on the Baltic Sea at St. Petersburg and at the detached Russian oblast (region) of Kaliningrad (a part of what was once East Prussia annexed in 1945),which also abuts Poland and Lithuania. To the south Russia borders North Korea, China, Mongolia, and Kazhakstan, Azerbaijan and Georgia. To the south west and west it borders Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, and Estonia, as well as Finland and Norway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2713Although the climate adds a layer of difficulty to daily life, the land is a generous source of crops and materials, including vast reserves of oil, gas, and precious metals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2713 Russia is among the world\u2019s leading producers of oil, extracting about one-fifth of the global total. It also is responsible for more than one-fourth of the world\u2019s total natural gas output.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/russia.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-125192\" width=\"518\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/russia.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/russia-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia: Borders and Resources \u2713Russia is bounded to the north and east by the Arctic and Pacific oceans, and it has small frontages in the northwest on the Baltic Sea at St. Petersburg and at the detached Russian oblast (region) of Kaliningrad (a part of what was once East Prussia annexed in 1945),which also abuts 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