<P> European Russia is the part of Russia situated in the far West of the country that is considered to be part of Europe . The other, much larger part of the country, situated to the East, is considered to be part of Asia . The specific boundaries between continents are largely a matter of geographical convention and different boundaries have been in use, however the eastern boundary of Europe is generally considered to be along the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caucasus Mountains and the Turkish Straits . Europe is also a subcontinent within Eurasia in geological terms, making the whole of Russia a part of the Eurasian continent . </P> <P> European Russia makes up 38% of Europe's total area . Its eastern border is defined by the Ural Mountains and the border with Kazakhstan . European Russia includes Moscow and Saint Petersburg, the two largest cities in Russia . </P> <P> Russia is not proportionately populated between its larger Asian portion, which contains about 23% of the country's population, and its smaller European portion, which contains about 77% . The European portion contains about 110 million people out of Russia's total population of about 144 million in an area covering nearly 4,000,000 km (1,500,000 sq mi); an average of 27.5 persons per km (70 per sq mi). </P>

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