Eastern Europe was influenced and controlled by the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union was fighting the Eastern Front on D-Day. Many German troops were occupied in this area.
The Soviet Union was spread out in Northern Asia, the most famous Soviet country was Russia, but others, such as Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus were part of it.
The largest country in the world, which was once part of the Soviet Union, is Russia. Covering over 17 million square kilometers, it spans Eastern Europe and northern Asia. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia emerged as an independent nation and remains the largest country globally by land area.
Churchill thinks the goals of the Soviet Union were that all the European countries lay in the Soviet area of influence and all are subject to a very high & increasing degree of control from Moscow. In the Congressional Record, March 5, 1946 Churchill stated "I do not believe that the Soviet Union desire war. What it desires is the fruits of war and the indefinite expansion of its power and doctrine. ~Dimonique♥
There is no more Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. But when there was, India was smaller. In area, but not in population.
Eastern Europe was influenced and controlled by the Soviet Union.
Russia and Canada are both larger than China in area.
China has a much larger population than the United States. So China is larger when measured by population. The area of China is slightly smaller than the area of the US.
China is larger in both land area and people.
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The United States is larger than China by about 257,000 km2
The funny thing is the same question was on my DG (Daily Geography) Soviet Union, Canda, China and United States.
The Soviet Union was fighting the Eastern Front on D-Day. Many German troops were occupied in this area.
Russia
Russia is larger in land area. Russia is 6,592,800 square miles and China is 3,969,100 square miles.