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WORLD GEOGRAPHY
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its service industry
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its large population
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its endless supply of memes
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its abundant natural resources
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Detailed explanation-1: -Russia is among the world’s leading producers of oil, extracting about one-fifth of the global total. It also is responsible for more than one-fourth of the world’s total natural gas output. The great bulk of oil and natural gas comes from the huge fields that underlie the northern part of the West Siberia region.
Detailed explanation-2: -Oil and Gas back to top Russia holds 17 billion tons of oil and 48 billion cubic meters of gas. Russia holds the number one spot for world gas reserves and is the world’s second largest producer of dry natural gas, second to the US.
Detailed explanation-3: -Russia possesses rich reserves of iron ore, manganese, chromium, nickel, platinum, titanium, copper, tin, lead, tungsten, diamonds, phosphates, and gold, and the forests of Siberia contain an estimated one-fifth of the world’s timber, mainly conifers (see fig. 8; Environmental Conditions, ch. 3).