Moscow vs Russia

Moscow

name
  • The government of Russia or the Soviet Union. 

  • An unincorporated community in Hillsdale County, Michigan 

  • A village in Clermont County, Ohio; said to be named by French veterans of Napoleon's siege of Moscow. 

  • A borough of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. 

  • An unincorporated community in Freeborn County, Minnesota. 

  • An unincorporated community in Polk County, Texas. 

  • A small town in Iowa County, Wisconsin; named after the Mascouten tribe. 

  • A census-designated place in Allegany County, Maryland. 

  • An unincorporated community in Kemper County, Mississippi. 

  • A nickname for A Brandon Estate, a social housing estate in Southwark, Central London. 

  • An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Arkansas. 

  • A city, the county seat of Latah County, Idaho; probably named after the Russian city. 

  • An unincorporated community in Rush County, Indiana. 

  • An unincorporated community in Hickman County, Kentucky. 

  • An unincorporated community in the town of Stowe, Lamoille County, Vermont. 

  • A federal city, the capital and largest city of Russia. 

  • A village in Kottayam district, Kerala, India; named for Soviet influence in Kerala during the Cold War. 

  • An unincorporated community in Lamar County, Alabama. 

  • An unincorporated community in Marengo County, Alabama. 

  • An unincorporated community in Hancock County, West Virginia. 

  • A hamlet in East Ayrshire council area, Scotland; probably named or re-named in 1812 for Napoleon's retreat from Moscow (OS grid ref NS4840). 

  • A small town in Somerset County, Maine. 

  • Moscow Oblast, an oblast of Russia, surrounding the city, which itself is not part of the oblast. 

  • A ghost town in Licking County, Ohio. 

  • A small city in Fayette County, Tennessee; named after Mosgo, a Cherokee chief. 

  • An unincorporated community in Muscatine County, Iowa. 

  • A tiny city in Stevens County, Kansas; said to be named after Luis de Moscoso Alvarado, a Spanish explorer. 

Russia

name
  • A country in Eastern Europe and North Asia, bordering on the Pacific and Arctic Oceans and the Baltic, Black, and Caspian Seas; established as an independent country in 1991 upon the dissolution of the Soviet Union, it is the largest country in the world. Co-official name: Russian Federation, formerly the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) (among other names) from 1917 to 1991. Capital and largest city: Moscow. 

  • The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (a very common name, although more formally Russia, the RSFSR, was one of several constituent republics of the USSR). 

  • The Russian Empire; the tsarist empire in Russia lasting from 1721 to 1917. 

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