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Largest in what sense?
GDP comes to mind.
There are other metrics as well surely, I wouldn't be surprised if China was amongst the biggest OS user markets as well.
If we'd be talking size as in territory, I doubt anyone cares what the Russian market does.
I was thinking population, and therefore users of the OS. I feel like a lot of western companies are already bending over to tap into the Chinese markets, so if they had to support Linux to do that for software, maybe they would.