Where is the 2018 World Cup?
Australia, Japan, Mexico, Indonesia and the US were all initially part of the bidding process but withdrew before the formal process began.
Four bids entered the ballot at the FIFA Executive Committee: England, Russia, and joint bids from Portugal & Spain and Belgium & Netherlands.
The first round of voting saw England eliminated with just two of the 22 votes.
In the second round Russia achieved the required majority with 13 votes and were declared hosts of the 2018 World Cup.
Where will the matches be played?
Russia will spread the World Cup to 12 stadiums across western Russia with Kaliningrad the furthest west and Ekaterinburg the furthest east - the two cities are more than 1500 miles apart.
It will include six entirely new stadiums, two upgraded and one rebuilt in Volgograd.
The final will be held in the Luzhniki Stadium, currently home to CSKA Moscow.
Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow (capacity: 81,000)
Otkrytiye Arena, Moscow (44,929)
Krestovsky Stadium, Saint Petersburg (66,881)
Kaliningrad Stadium, Kaliningrad (35,000)
Kazan Arena, Kazan (45,105)
Nizhny Novgorod Stadium, Nizhny Novgorod (44,899)
Cosmos Arena, Samara (44,918)
Volgograd Arena, Volgograd (45,015)
Mordovia Arena, Saransk (45,015)
Rostov Arena, Rostov-on-Don (43,702)
Fisht Olympic Stadium, Sochi (47,659)
Central Stadium, Ekaterinburg (35,000)
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Who will be at the World Cup?
Currently, only the hosts Russia are guaranteed a spot at the World Cup.
Defending champions used to be given an exemption from qualifying but that has been scrapped to give the qualification tournaments more weight.
The qualification process started on March 12 2015 with a clash between Timor-Leste and Mongolia in Dili.
The line-up of 32 teams for the 2018 World Cup will be completed by November 2017 more than 800 scheduled matches.