Russia is the country with the largest territorial area in the world today, with a land area as high as170,000 square kilometers, nearly twice that of Canada, which ranks second.
Brief introduction of Russia.
The reason why Russia has such a vast territory is inseparable from its active exploration of North Asia and Central Asia in modern times, which has made Russia leap from a marginal country in the eastern European plain to a first-class world-class power in the center of the Eurasian continent.
Due to the late development of the eastern European plate and the cold climate, Russia's strength is not as good as that of the western European powers. In addition, the eastern European plate is far from the Atlantic Ocean, and it uses two strategic channels to reach the Atlantic Ocean: the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.
Russia has a good opportunity to directly expand its territory. Although the geographical potential of North Asia is obviously inferior to that of the New World and Asia and Africa, Russia's headquarters in Eastern Europe is directly connected with North Asia and Central Asia.
Russia can effectively project its geographical influence to North Asia and Central Asia. On the other hand, the Central Plains Dynasty in the farming period was naturally restricted by farming, although its civilization quality was much higher than that in the marginal areas of the same period.
Russia's Asian territory is either dry (Central Asia) or cold (North Asia), which is not suitable for conventional large-scale industrial and agricultural wars. The development of such places is mainly based on resource exploitation.
Russia's Asian territory lacks conventional conditions for industrial and agricultural development, and it is impossible to build a self-contained economic and industrial cluster. Russia does not need large-scale industrial and agricultural development support in North Asia, as long as it controls key mineral resources.