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This is a list of the extreme points of Russia, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location in the country. The extreme points of the Soviet Union were identical, except that the southernmost point was Badkhyz in Uzbekistan. Image File history File links Extreme_points_Russia. ... Compass rose with north highlighted and at top North is one of the four cardinal directions, specifically the direction that, in Western culture, is treated as the primary direction: north is used (explicitly or implicitly) to define all other directions; the (visual) top edges of maps usually correspond to the... A compass rose with South highlighted South is most commonly a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... A compass rose with west highlighted This article refers to the cardinal direction; for other uses see West (disambiguation). ... Look up country in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Russia

Northernmost Point — Fligeli Point, Rudolfi Island, Franz Josef Land, Nenetsia (81°52'N)
Southernmost Point — Mount Bazardyuzyu, Dagestan
Westernmost Point — Narmel'n, Vistula Spit, Kaliningrad Oblast (19°38'E)
Easternmost Point — Big Diomede, Chukotka ¹

Russia (contiguous mainland area) Location of Franz Josef Land Franz Josef Land (Russ. ... Categories: Russia geography stubs | Autonomous Districts of Russia ... The Republic of Dagestan (Russian: ), older spelling Daghestan, is a federal subject of the Russian Federation (a republic). ... Landsat photo Vistula Spit The Vistula Spit (Polish: Mierzeja WiÅ›lana, Russian: :Ð‘Ð°Ð»Ñ‚Ð¸Ð¹ÑÐºÐ°Ñ ÐºÐ¾ÑÐ°, German: Frische Nehrung) is a peninsular stretch of land cutting Vistula Lagoon off from Gdansk Bay. ... Map of the Kaliningrad Oblast Course of Pregolya River in Gvardeysk. ... Satellite photo of the Bering Strait, with the Diomede Islands at center. ... Chukotka Autonomous District (Russian: , tr. ...

Northernmost Point — Cape Chelyuskin, Taymyria (77°43'N)
Southernmost Point — Mount Bazardyuzyu, Dagestan
Westernmost Point — near Lavry, Pskov Oblast
Easternmost Point — Cape Dezhnev (East Cape), Chukotka (169°40'W) ¹

¹ According to the International Date Line. Cape Chelyuskin is the northernmost point of the Eurasian continent, lying at the northernmost tip of the Taimyr peninsula, south of Severnaya Zemlya. ... Taymyria (Russian: ) is a federal subject of Russia (an autonomous okrug of Krasnoyarsk Krai). ... The Republic of Dagestan (Russian: ), older spelling Daghestan, is a federal subject of the Russian Federation (a republic). ... Pskov Oblast (Russian: ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). ... Cape Dezhnev (Russian: Mys Dezhneva) (66Â°01â€² N 169Â°43â€² W), Russia, the cape that forms the eastern-most point of Asia, on Chukchi Peninsula in the Bering Strait. ... Chukotka Autonomous District (Russian: , tr. ... The International Date Line around 180Â° The International Date Line is an imaginary line on the surface of the Earth, which offsets the hours that are added or subtracted as one travels east or west through successive time zones. ...

This is a list of the extreme points of Asia, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location on the continent. ... It has been suggested that The worlds most northern be merged into this article or section. ... Map of Russia with cities including Kaliningrad, Vyborg, Murmansk, Saint Petersburg, Petrozavodsk, Arkhangelsk, Moscow, Nizhniy Novgorod, Kazan, Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Volgograd, Rostov, Novorossiysk, Tuapse, Sochi, Astrakhan, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarak, Irkutsk, Norilsk, Yakutsk, Magadan, Anadyr, Provideniya, Petropaviovsk-Kamchatskiy, Khabarovsk, Kholmsk, Nevelsk, Nakhodka, Vostochnyy, Vladivostok. ... This is a list of the extreme points of Europe, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location on the continent. ... This is a list of the extreme points of the Netherlands, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location. ...

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	The easternmost point in Russia is Big Diomede Island (Ostrova Ratmanova); the westernmost, the boundary with Poland on a 40-mile(60-km)-long spit of land separating the Gulf of Danzig (Zatoka Gdanska) from the Zalew Wislany.
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Extreme points of the world - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (749 words)
	The southernmost point of the world and the southernmost point on land is the geographic South Pole, which is on the continent of Antarctica.
	The point farthest from the Earth's centre is the summit of Chimborazo (due to the Earth not being a perfect sphere), at 6384.4 km.
	The point closest to the Earth's centre (~6353 km) is probably somewhere at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean (depth ~4 km) near the Geographic North pole (the bottom of the Mariana Trench is 6366.4 km from the centre of the Earth).

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