GENERAL INFORMATION ON THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS

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GENERAL INFORMATION ON THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS

Territory.

The Republic of Belarus has a very favorable geopolitical situation in the center of Europe. It is situated at the crossroads of trunk-railways and highways, systems of oil- and gas-pipe lines, flow lines between Western Europe and Asia. On the East Belarus borders on Russian Federation, on the West on Poland, on the North on Latvia and Lithuania, on the South on the Ukraine. The distance between Minsk, the capital of Belarus, and the capitals of the neighboring states is as follows: up to Vilnius – 115 miles, to Riga – 296, to Warsaw – 342, to Kiev – 347, to Moscow – 435miles. Administratively, Belarus can be divided into 6 main regions: Brest region, Vitebsk region, Gomel region, Grodno region, Minsk region and Mogilev region; the city of Minsk can be singled out as an independent unit.

The territory of Belarus is 80,15 thousand square miles. Its length from north to south is 348 miles, from west to east – 404 miles. The length of the borders is 1845 miles.

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