Russia shares land borders with 14 countries. These countries are Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland (via the Kaliningrad exclave), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, and North Korea

. Additionally, there are two partially recognized territories, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, that also share borders with Russia, which some sources count, bringing the total to 16 if included

. In summary, the widely accepted number of countries that Russia borders by land is 14.