the bering sea
the bering sea
the bering sea
the bering sea
As an archipelago, Japan is an island chain and is surrounded by water. The water acts as a natural and geographical barrier, separating the country from its nearest land neighbor (Manchuria and Russia on the Asian continent) by 100-200 miles at the closest points. For the most part, Japan is separated from other islands and large land masses by thousands of miles of ocean.
approximately 55 miles Answer: The narrowest distance between mainland Russia and mainland Alaska is approximately 55 miles. However, in the body of water between Alaska and Russia, known as the Bering Strait, there lies two small islands known as Big Diomede and Little Diomede.
The Bering Strait
About 2.4 miles separate Little Diomede Island in Alaska and Big Diomede Island in Russia.
The US and russia are divided by a strip of water between what two islands what is the distance distance the two countries
Rhode Island's water area is 500.12 square miles.
The water between Alaska and Russia is called the Bering Strait. In the strait there are two islands, Big Diomede and Little Diomede. belongs to the US and Big Diomede belongs to Russia. They are about 2 miles apart, so you can see one from the other. But both are small, featureless, uninhabited islands. So you -can- see Russia from the US but just barely, and there's really not much to see. actually Little Diomede is inhabited year round
Canada didn't sell it to the US; Russia did. Canada owned it first, then Russia, now the US. Russia found it useless and hard to get to because of the water body that separated it from Russia.
Russia has a land area alone of 5,735,74 square miles. It has an additional 857,064 square miles of water.