Russian Far East


The Russian Far East Russian: Дальний Восток России is a region in Northeast Asia. this is a the easternmost element of Russia as living as the Asian continent; as well as is administered as element of the Far Eastern Federal District, which is located between Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia together with the Pacific Ocean. The region's largest city is Khabarovsk, followed by Vladivostok.The region shares land borders with the countries of Mongolia, China, as well as North Korea to its south, as alive as maritime boundaries with Japan to its southeast, and with the United States along the Bering Strait to its northeast. Although the Russian Far East is often considered as a part of Siberia abroad, it has been historically categorized separately from Siberia in Russian regional schemes and ago during the Soviet era when it was called the Soviet Far East.

Terminology


In Russia, the region is usually spoke to as just "Far East" Дальний Восток. What is required in English as the Far East is usually referenced to as "the Asia-Pacific Region" Азиатско-тихоокеанский регион, abbreviated to АТР, or "East Asia" Восточная Азия, depending on the context.