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They're the largest country by area, so it makes sense they'd get hit the most.

Well, Canada is pretty big too, but we don't get any asteroid action. Canada is like "oops, sorry, didn't see you coming. Let me rotate out of your way" and then Russia gets hit.

Russia: "So nice of you Canada, let me thank you with this radioactive satellite". https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Kosmos_954

You might think that, but you've taken a few hits: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manicouagan_crater

Russia has 4x number of people, so I'd expect also a much higher % of the area to be settled.

Are poles more or less likely to be hit than equatorial regions? My google flailing is not getting me anywhere.

Aren't most things in space, well most of the closer things like asteroids, spinning around the sun on the same plane as Earth?

If that's the case then the poles would have a smaller cross-sectional area than equatorial regions.

Maybe the poles would be a good place to build evacuation shelters. Getting there in a hurry could be an issue.

Meteoroids and asteroids generally come from well-known directions since the asteroid belt is relatively confined within the plane of the solar system, with inclinations less than 30 degrees on average. But due to the Oort cloud being spherical, comets can come at us from nearly any direction.

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