Japan has the nickname however, for geographical causes, it fits Russia higher, the president joked
Japan is named ‘the land of the rising Sun’ however Russia has a greater declare to that title, President Vladimir Putin joked on Monday at an ecological discussion board within the nation’s Far East.
The Sun rises within the east, however Japan is not the easternmost piece of land on the map, the Russian chief famous.
“Our neighbors the Japanese and the country of Japan are called the ‘land of the rising Sun,’ but east of Japan, I think, there’s [Russia’s] Kamchatka or [the island of] Sakhalin; then there is New Zealand – that’s even further to the east, and to the east of New Zealand there is Chukotka,” mentioned Putin.
Chukotka, which is the northeasternmost area of Russia, is barely separated from the American continent by a 60km strait, he identified.
“In this sense, the land of the rising sun is Russia,” Putin concluded.
(RT.com)