Geography

**scientificred** · 5th September 2022, 03:05 PM

Quite extraordinary geographical facts.
https://www.mylifeelsewhere.com/country-size-comparison/russia/united-kingdom
Russia is 70x the size of UK but has only double the population!
Some people put this down to the huge male losses suffered by Russia during WWII which was almost 80 years ago! Japan appeared to recover much better but from a different kind of war and vastly different circumstances.

**fagin** · 5th September 2022, 10:01 PM

Originally Posted by scientificred

Quite extraordinary geographical facts.
https://www.mylifeelsewhere.com/country-size-comparison/russia/united-kingdom
Russia is 70x the size of UK but has only double the population!
Some people put this down to the huge male losses suffered by Russia during WWII which was almost 80 years ago! Japan appeared to recover much better but from a different kind of war and vastly different circumstances.

I don't think WW11 has anything to do with it mate i think you will find most of Russia is not exactly to everyone's liking with their long winters and of course the Siberian desert.
Canada is also a huge land mass similar to the USA yet the US has about 375,000,000 mill pop yet Canada has only 38,000,000 mill pop the difference again is the weather plus being a new country i have said on here before we have snow and really cold temps where i am from November through to April so if you don't like outside winter activities it can be quite depressing.We can get 30 inches of snow overnight which is ok because we're equipped for it,but it's also good to know that no matter how much snow one wakes up to,it is not an acceptable excuse to be late for work,and you will be written up.

**scientificred** · 5th September 2022, 10:15 PM

Originally Posted by fagin

I don't think WW11 has anything to do with it mate i think you will find most of Russia is not exactly to everyone's liking with their long winters and of course the Siberian desert.
Canada is also a huge land mass similar to the USA yet the US has about 375,000,000 mill pop yet Canada has only 38,000,000 mill pop the difference again is the weather plus being a new country i have said on here before we have snow and really cold temps where i am from November through to April so if you don't like outside winter activities it can be quite depressing.We can get 30 inches of snow overnight which is ok because we're equipped for it,but it's also good to know that no matter how much snow one wakes up to,it is not an acceptable excuse to be late for work,and you will be written up.

Thank you for your reply Fagin,
It was not me suggesting that WWII was responsible for Russia's lowly population but some historians.
I was curious after looking at how far the recent winter Olympics and world cup football had ventured into Russia. Not very far at all, and from studying russian geography at school I was led to believe that it was quite a fertile land, China too!
I know also too know that Canada is pretty much next door to Russia at some point.
Mercator's projection map makes it seem like the other side of the world!

**Kev0909** · 5th September 2022, 10:27 PM

Originally Posted by scientificred

Quite extraordinary geographical facts.
https://www.mylifeelsewhere.com/country-size-comparison/russia/united-kingdom
Russia is 70x the size of UK but has only double the population!
Some people put this down to the huge male losses suffered by Russia during WWII which was almost 80 years ago! Japan appeared to recover much better but from a different kind of war and vastly different circumstances.

Haha no, you're not very clever are you? alot of russia isn't livable in, and they don't have more foreigners for obvious reasons unlike here

**scientificred** · 5th September 2022, 10:39 PM

Originally Posted by Kev0909

Haha no, you're not very clever are you? alot of russia isn't livable in, and they don't have more foreigners for obvious reasons unlike here

My my, you are everywhere tonight kev.
Are you becoming unhinged ?

**fagin** · 5th September 2022, 10:40 PM

Originally Posted by scientificred

Thank you for your reply Fagin,
It was not me suggesting that WWII was responsible for Russia's lowly population but some historians.
I was curious after looking at how far the recent winter Olympics and world cup football had ventured into Russia. Not very far at all, and from studying russian geography at school I was led to believe that it was quite a fertile land, China too!
I know also too know that Canada is pretty much next door to Russia at some point.
Mercator's projection map makes it seem like the other side of the world!

I understand you were just quoting mate...With regards to your suggestion that Russia is close to Canada you are correct in fact around 10,000 years ago when the Bering Strait between the two countries was frozen people migrated across the ice from Outer Mongolia to Canada and settled in the far north being then called Eskimo's but over time that name was considered derogatory and the new name is Inuit

**scientificred** · 12th September 2022, 01:20 PM

Originally Posted by fagin

I understand you were just quoting mate...With regards to your suggestion that Russia is close to Canada you are correct in fact around 10,000 years ago when the Bering Strait between the two countries was frozen people migrated across the ice from Outer Mongolia to Canada and settled in the far north being then called Eskimo's but over time that name was considered derogatory and the new name is Inuit

Thank you Fagin for that little bit of history! Fascinating too for including Mongolia that seldom gets a mention in anyone's history!

**scientificred** · 12th September 2022, 03:57 PM

From my research then approximately 1/3 of Russia is deemed habitable as us Europeans deem fit.
(But still lots of other people live in such excluded extreme areas of Russia either voluntary or otherwise).
That is still about 20x the area of the UK.
Doing the simple maths and in summary, then the habitable areas of Russia are about 20x that of the UK but have only about double the population, mostly in the west of the country.