Russia is the largest country in Europe with a total area of 17,098,242 square kilometers. Despite being a transcontinental country, about 4,000,000 square kilometers of Russian territory is in Europe, still making it the largest country in Eastern Europe, and all of Europe, by far.
The Ukraine is the largest country wholly in Europe, with a total land size of 603,628 square kilometers. It is an Eastern European nation.
Yes. Before the Soviet Union collapsed it was the largest Eastern European nation not a part of the Soviet Union. However after the Soviet Union collapsed, Ukraine became the largest Eastern European nation (excluding Russia), and the largest European nation wholly in Europe.
Italy and France was not an Eastern European nation that was under communist control
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Moldova has the smallest GDP per capita of any Eastern European nation.
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Germany has the largest GDP of any European nation. Luxembourg has the largest GDP per capita rate of any European nation, and any country of the world.
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Ukraine is the largest of the European countries that were part of the Soviet Union.
Russia covers most of the North European Plain in eastern Europe. It is the largest country in the world by land area and spans across both Europe and Asia. The North European Plain is one of the major geographical features of Russia and extends into several other countries in Eastern Europe.
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No Eastern European countries were members of the European Union in 1993. The EU did not expand to the east until 2004 when nine Eastern European countries (with one Western European nation) joined the EU.