In this video, we are going to use the Teach with GIS Resources from ArcGIS to visualise the size and location of Russia. Now, there's two parts of this platform that we're going to use. We're going to use the Geography Visualizer, but we're also, if I scroll down, we're going to use this other application here where it says world sizes. But first we're going to go to the Geography Visualizer. So I'm going to click on this and it's going to take me to a GIS map. And here we can see it's actually on the hybrid map, so it shows the satellite imagery of the world, but it's a hybrid map because it's also got the country borders on. Now I'm going to change this map. I'm going to do that by coming to the base map button in the bottom toolbar. So I'll click on this and I'm going to take it to a chartered territory map. And once I've done that, that will load up and you will see that we have a map which is really, really clear to be able to see the different countries and the different borders. So it does have physical geography information on, you can see the rivers here and things, but it's essentially a political geography map showing where different countries are. Now on the chartered territory map, we have a series of geographical reference points that we can use to be able to describe where Russia is. So if I hold down my left button and I drag the map upwards, we can see where the equator is, which means Russia, which we can see in the middle of the screen here, is in the northern hemisphere. If I zoom in a little bit and I'm using the scroll wheel of the mouse to do that, we can see that this line is the 45 degree north latitude line. And there is a little bit of Russia just south of this line, but most of Russia is north of the 45 degree north latitude line. So we can also see on here, if we look, we can see where the Arctic circle is and we can see that that runs through Russian territory. So a lot of northern part of Russia is within the Arctic Circle. We can also see on this map the different countries which surround Russia, the different borders. Now, you may think that knowing which countries border Russia is just something for a quiz question, but that's not the case. It really helps us understand the physical and human geography of the country. So for example, we can see here Russia shares a long boarder with China, and that might mean it affects Russia's trade policies with China. It might affect how Russia spends its money on defences and the military. So by knowing which countries border Russia helps our understanding, not just of Russia, but of the whole world. So we can see how this can be very useful at understanding the location of Russia. In terms of the size, I could go down to this toolbar and measure the size of Russia using this button on the toolbar, but I'm not going to do that here. I'm going to use a different tool. So I've come back into the Teach With GIS homepage and I'm going to scroll down. Rather than going into the geography visualizer, I'm going to go into where it says world sizes. And what this allows me to do is when it loads up, you will see the world in globe form. And if I hold down the left button of the mouse, I can move the globe around. So I'm gonna move that around. I'm going to find Russia here. And what I can do, you can see the pink outline coming on countries there. I can click on Russia there. And when I do that, I can then hold the mouse button down and I can move Russia to a different part of the world. And if I can zoom in, I can move it around. So I can bring it down, for example, and I can put it next to Australia. And I might do here is, yeah, it's moved around a little bit. You can see Russia next to the outline of Australia and you can see it's around twice the size. Now this is a really useful tool because as you may be aware, when we try and show maps on a flat surface, like a 2D surface, we have to distort it to make it fit. And that often means that, certainly on the charter maps, like in the Geography Visualizer, the far north and south parts of the world get stretched. They really get elongated to make them look a lot bigger. So it's really important to use a tool like this to be able to compare different countries.