Largest country (Tony Wheeler_Lonely Planet)

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It occupies over one-ninth of the Earth's land area, 40% of Europe alone and spans nine time zones. Of course, it's Russia - the world's largest country by a long shot. Occupying 17,098,242 square kilometres, this enormous Eurasian nation is almost double the size of the world's second biggest country, Canada.

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