Autonomous Republic of Karelia

Projection: Regional conformal

The Autonomous Republic of Karelia within the Russian Federation is a sparsely populated area with deep forests and many lakes. It borders to Lake Ladoga in the south, Lake Onega in the east, the White Sea in the north and Finland to the west.

Karelia as such is a larger area situated on both sides of the Russian-Finnish border from the Gulf of Finland to quite far north. The area has been a border land between western and eastern Europe since at least the middle ages. The current border between Russia and Finland has only been there since 1945 and earlier in history it has moved many times.

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