Afghanistan

Central Asia

A world map shows the location of lapis lazuli mining in northeastern Afghanistan, marked by a blue circle with "L I."

Lapis Lazuli Mines

World

USGS

Ecuador

Venezuela

Latin America

Algeria

Iran

Iraq

Kuwait

Libya

Qatar

Saudi Arabia

United Arab Emirates

Southwest Asia and North Africa

Angola

Equatorial Guinea

Gabon

Nigeria

Republic of the Congo

Sub-Saharan Africa

A map highlights the O P E C members such as Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Algeria, Nigeria Angola, Venezuela, and Ecuador shaded in blue.

Member states of Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), an international cartel founded in 1960 to coordinate petroleum production among its members

Countries

OPEC

Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Members

Georgia

Armenia

Russia

Eurasia

Moldova

Belarus

Ukraine

Europe

A map showing the distribution of languages in the Russian domain.

Languages within the Russian domain

Languages

The language map for the Russian Domain displays both individual languages as well as language families. Russian is spoken throughout Russia, particularly in the western two-thirds of the country and along the southern border with China. It also is found in eastern and Southern Ukraine. Belorussian is spoken in Belarus. Ukrainian is spoken in Ukraine and a small portion of western Russia near the Ukrainian border. Armenia is spoken in Armenia. Romanian is spoken in Moldova. Altaic languages dominate Siberia and are found in pockets in western Russia, including an area east of Moscow near the southern Ural Mountains and west of the Caspian Sea. Caucasian languages are spoken in the Caucasus Mountains of extreme southern Russia, Georgia, and northwestern Armenia. Eskimo-Aleut languages are spoken in extreme eastern Siberia and Russia’s Arctic islands. Finno-Ugric languages are spoken along the border with Finland along the Arctic coast of western Russia, and throughout the West Siberian Lowland.

Lapis Lazuli Mines	Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Members	Languages - Russian Domain
Lapis Lazuli Mines	Value	Altaic	Armenian	Belorussian	Caucasian	Eskimo-Aleut and other	Finno-Ugric	Romanian	Russian	Russian and Ukrainian	Ukrainian
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		38.9%	60.7%		78.4%	7.69%	7.12%		3.75%
				99.6%				85.4%		21.5%	77.8%