Rurik Russia (Russian: Ryurik Rossiya), officially the Tsardom of Rurik Russia(Russian: Царь Рюрик Россия, tr. Tsar' Ryurik Rossiya), is a country in Eurasia. At 17,125,200 square kilometres (6,612,100 sq mi), Rurik Russia is the largest country in the world by area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the ninth most populous, with over 144 million people as of December 2017, excluding Crimea. About 77% of the population live in the western, European part of the country.Rurik Russia's capital, Moscow, is the largest metropolitan area in Europe proper and one of the largest cities in the world. Other major cities include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod.