Belarus
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Popular Destinations
Minsk
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Minsk is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Belarus.
Vitebsk
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Vitebsk, also known as Vitsyebsk or Viciebsk, is a city in Belarus.
Brest
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Brest is a border town in the south-west corner of Belarus, near Terespol in Poland.
Destinations
Minsk Region
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Minsk Voblasć is a region in the central part of Belarus. Neogothic Church of Saint Alex in Ivyanets…
Grodno Oblast
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Grodno Region, also known as Grodno Oblast or Hrodna Voblasts, is one of the regions of Belarus.
Vitebsk Oblast
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Vitebsk Oblast is a region in the north-eastern part of Belarus.
Gomel Oblast
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Gomel Region, also known as Gomel Oblast or Homyel Voblasts, is one of the regions of Belarus.
Mogilev Oblast
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Mogilev Region, also known as Mogilev Oblast or Mahilyow Voblasts, is one of the regions of Belarus.
Brest Oblast
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Brest Region, also known as Brest Oblast or Brest Voblasts, is one of the regions of Belarus.
Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park
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Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park is a national park within parts of the Brest Region and Grodno Region in Belarus adjacent to the Polish border.
Belarus
- Type: Country with 9,260,000 residents
- Description: country in Eastern Europe
- Languages: Belarusian and Russian
- Neighbors: Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Ukraine
- Categories: sovereign state, unitary state, social state, landlocked country, republic and locality
- Location: Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude of centre
53.6° or 53° 36' northLongitude of centre
28° eastPopulation
9,260,000Area
207,600 km² (80,155 miles²)Elevation
144 metres (472 feet)Capital
MinskCurrency
Belarusian ruble (BYN)Phone code
.byInternet domain
375OpenStreetMap ID
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place=countryGeoNames ID
630336Wikidata ID
Q184Belarus Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Byilurusya
- Abkhazian: Белоруссиа
- Achinese: Bèlarusia
- Adyghe: Белоруссие
- Afar: Belorussiya
- Afrikaans: Belarus
- Afrikaans: Wit-Rusland
- Akan: Belarus
- Akan: Bɛlarus
- Albanian: Bjellorusi
- Albanian: Bjellorusia
- Amharic: Belarus
- Amharic: ቤላሩስ
- Amis: Belarus
- Angika: बेलारूस
- Arabic: Belarus
- Arabic: بيلاروس
- Arabic: بيلاروسيا
- Arabic: روسيا البيضاء
- Aragonese: Belarrusia
- Armenian: Բելառուս
- Armenian: Բելոռուս
- Armenian: Պելառուսիա
- Arpitan: Bièlorussia
- Arpitan: Bièlorussie
- Assamese: বেলাৰুছ
- Asturian: Bielorrusia
- Atayal: Belarus
- Avaric: Belarusa
- Avaric: Белорусс
- Avaric: Белоруссия
- Awadhi: बेलारूस
- Aymara: Bilarus
- Azerbaijani: Belarus
- Balinese: Belarusia
- Bambara: Belarusi
- Banjar: Bilarusia
- Bashkir: Беларусь
- Basque: Bielorrusia
- Bavarian: Weißrussland
- Belarusian: Respublika Byelarus’
- Belarusian: Беларуская Рэспубліка
- Belarusian: Беларусь
- Belarusian: Рэспу́бліка Белару́сь
- Belarusian: Рэспубліка Беларусь
- Bengali: বেলারুশ
- Bengali: বেলোরুশিয়া
- Bengali: শ্বেত রাশিয়া
- Bhojpuri: बेलारूस
- Bhojpuri: बेलारूसिया
- Bhojpuri: बेलारूसिया रिपब्लिक
- Bhojpuri: रिपब्लिक ऑफ़ बेलारूसिया
- Bishnupriya: বেলারুস
- Bislama: Belarus
- Bosnian: Belorusija
- Bosnian: Bjelorusija
- Breton: Belarus
- Breton: Byelarus
- Bulgarian: Беларус
- Bulgarian: Белорусия
- Bulgarian: Република Беларус
- Burmese: ဘီလာရုစ်
- Burmese: ဘီလာရုဇ်နိုင်ငံ
- Catalan: Belarús
- Catalan: Bielorússia
- Catalan: República de Belarús
- Cebuano: Belarus
- Cebuano: Biyelorusya
- Central Bikol: Belarus
- Central Kurdish: بیلاڕووس
- Central Kurdish: بیلاڕووسیا
- Central Kurdish: بێلاڕووس
- Chavacano: Bielorusia
- Chechen: Белорусси
- Cherokee: ᏇᎳᎷᏍ
- Chinese: Belarus
- Chinese: Báiéluósī
- Chinese: 白俄
- Chinese: 白俄罗斯/白俄羅斯
- Chinese: 白俄罗斯
- Chinese: 白俄罗斯共和国
- Chinese: 白俄羅斯
- Chinese: 白俄羅斯共和國
- Chinese: 白罗斯
- Chinese: 白羅斯
- Church Slavic: Бѣла Роусь
- Chuvash: Беларуç
- Cornish: Belarussi
- Corsican: Bielorussia
- Crimean Tatar: Belarus
- Croatian: Bjelarus
- Croatian: Bjelorusija
- Czech: Bělorusko
- Dagbani: Belarus
- Danish: Belarus
- Danish: Hviderusland
- Danish: Republikken Belarus
- Dhivehi: ބެލަރޫސް
- Dimli (individual language): Belarus
- Dinka: Belaruc
- Dotyali: बेलारुस
- Dutch: BLR
- Dutch: BY
- Dutch: Belarus
- Dutch: Republiek Belarus
- Dutch: Wit-Rusland
- Dzongkha: བེ་ལ་རུ་སུ་
- Dzongkha: བེ་ལ་རུ་སུ།
- Dzongkha: བེལ་ཨ་རུ་སུ
- Eastern Mari: Белоруссий
- Egyptian Arabic: بيلاروس
- Egyptian Arabic: بيلاروسيا
- English: BLR
- English: Belorussia
- English: Bielaruś
- English: Bielorussia
- English: Byeloruss
- English: Byelorussia
- English: Republic of Belarus
- English: Respublika Belarus'
- English: Respublika Bielaruś
- English: White Russia
- English: White Ruthenia
- English: by
- Erzya: Белорузия Республикась
- Esperanto: BLR
- Esperanto: Belarusujo
- Esperanto: Belorusio
- Esperanto: Belorusujo
- Esperanto: Respubliko Belorusio
- Esperanto: by
- Estonian: Valgevene
- Estonian: Valgevene Vabariik
- Ewe: Belarus
- Ewe: Belarus nutome
- Extremaduran: Bielorrussia
- Extremaduran: Bielorrússia
- Faroese: Hvítarussland
- Fiji Hindi: Belarus
- Finnish: Valko-Venäjä
- Finnish: Valko-Venäjän tasavalta
- French: BLR
- French: BY
- French: Belarus
- French: Biélor.
- French: Biélorussie
- French: Bélarus
- French: la République de Biélorussie
- Friulian: Bielorussie
- Fulah: Belaruus
- Fulah: Belaruusiya
- Gagauz: Biyaz Rusiya
- Galician: Belarús
- Galician: Bielorrusia - Беларусь
- Galician: República de Belarús
- Ganda: Belarus
- Ganda: Belarusi
- Georgian: ბელარუსი
- Georgian: ბელორუსია
- German (Historic): Weißrussland
- German: Belarus
- German: Belorussland
- German: Belorußland
- German: Republik Belarus
- German: Weissrussland
- German: Weißrussland
- German: Weißruthenien
- German: Weißrußland
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Belarus
- Goan Konkani: Belarus
- Goan Konkani: बेलारूस
- Gothic: 𐍈𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌰𐍂𐌿𐍃𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳
- Greek: Δημοκρατία της Λευκορωσίας
- Greek: Λευκορωσία
- Guarani: Vielorrusia
- Guarani: Vielorrúsia
- Guianese Creole French: Byélorisi
- Gujarati: બેલારુસ
- Haitian: Byelorisi
- Hakka Chinese: Belarus
- Hausa: Belarus
- Hausa: Belarusa
- Hausa: Jamhuriyar Belarus
- Hawaiian: Belarusa
- Hebrew: בלארוס
- Hebrew: בלרוס
- Hebrew: רוסיה הלבנה
- Hindi: बेलारूस
- Hungarian: Belarusz Köztársaság
- Hungarian: Belorusszia
- Hungarian: Fehéroroszország
- Icelandic: Hvíta-Rússland
- Ido: Bielorusia
- Igbo: Belarus
- Iloko: Bielorusia
- Inari Sami: Vielgis-Ruošâ täsiväldi
- Inari Sami: Vielgis-Ruoššâ
- Indonesian: Belarus
- Indonesian: Belarusia
- Interlingua: Bielorussia
- Interlingue: Bielorussia
- Irish: An Bhealarúis
- Irish: an Bhealarúis
- Italian: Bielorussia
- Jamaican Creole English: Belarus
- Japanese: ベラルーシ
- Japanese: ベラルーシ共和国
- Japanese: ベロルシア
- Javanese: Bélarus
- Kabardian: Урысыху
- Kabiyè: Piyeloorusi
- Kabyle: Byilurusya
- Kalaallisut: Hvideruslandi
- Kalmyk: Цаһанорсин Орн
- Kannada: ಬೆಲಾರಸ್
- Kannada: ಬೆಲಾರುಸ್
- Kara-Kalpak: Belorussiya
- Karachay-Balkar: Белоруссия
- Kashmiri: بیلاروٗس
- Kashubian: Biôłorus
- Kashubian: Biôłorëskô
- Kazakh: Беларус
- Kazakh: Беларусь
- Khmer: បេឡារុស
- Kikuyu: Belarusi
- Kinaray-A: Belarus
- Kinaray-A: Biyelorrusya
- Kinyarwanda: Belarusi
- Kirghiz: БР
- Kirghiz: Беларусия
- Kirghiz: Беларусь
- Kirghiz: Беларусь Республикасы
- Komi-Permyak: Беларусь
- Komi: Беларусь
- Kongo: Belarusia
- Korean: 베라루스
- Korean: 벨라루스
- Korean: 벨라루스 공화국
- Korean: 벨라루씨
- Korean: 벨로루시
- Kotava: Belarusa
- Kurdish: Belarûs
- Kurdish: بیلاڕووس
- Ladin: BY
- Ladin: Bieloruscia
- Ladin: Ruscia Blancia
- Ladino: Bielorusia
- Lao: Bielorusia
- Lao: ປະເທດເບລາຣຸດຊີ
- Lao: ເບລາຣຸສ
- Latgalian: Boltkrīveja
- Latin: Ruthenia Alba
- Latvian: Baltkrievija
- Lezghian: Беларусия
- Ligurian: Bielorùscia
- Ligurian: Rùscia Giànca
- Limburgan: Wit-Rusland
- Lingala: Bielorusia
- Lingala: Byelorisi
- Lingua Franca Nova: Bielarus
- Literary Chinese: 白俄羅斯
- Literary Chinese: 白俄羅斯共和國
- Literary Chinese: 白羅斯
- Lithuanian: Baltarusija
- Lithuanian: Gudija
- Liv: Vāldakrīevõmō
- Livvi: Beloruussii
- Livvi: Valgo-Ven'a
- Lojban: belrus
- Lombard: Bielurüssia
- Low German: Wit-Ruslaand
- Low German: Wittrussland
- Lower Sorbian: Běłoruska
- Luba-Katanga: Byelorisi
- Luxembourgish: Belarus
- Luxembourgish: Wäissrussland
- Macedo-Romanian: Arusia albã
- Macedonian: Белорусија
- Madurese: Belarus
- Maithili: बेलारूस
- Malagasy: Belarosia
- Malagasy: Belarosy
- Malagasy: Bielôrosia
- Malay: Belarus
- Malayalam: ബെലറൂസ്
- Malayalam: ബെലാറുസ്
- Maltese: Belarus
- Maltese: Belarussja
- Maltese: Bjelorussja
- Maltese: Repubblika tal-Belarussja
- Maltese: il-Belarussja
- Manipuri: ꯕꯦꯂꯥꯔꯨꯁ
- Manx: Yn Velaroosh
- Maori: Pērara
- Marathi: बेलारूस
- Mazanderani: بلاروس
- Min Dong Chinese: Belarus
- Min Nan Chinese: Belarus
- Min Nan Chinese: Bia̍t-la-lu̍t-su
- Min Nan Chinese: 滅拉律斯
- Minangkabau: Belarus
- Mingrelian: ბელარუსი
- Mirandese: Bielorrússia
- Moksha: Беларузмастор
- Moksha: Беларузь
- Moksha: Республикась Беларузь
- Mongolian: Беларусь
- Mongolian: ꯕꯦꯂꯥꯔꯨꯁ
- Moroccan Arabic: بيلاروس
- Moroccan Arabic: بيلاروسيا
- Nauru: Berarut
- Navajo: Sǫʼ Łichíiʼnii Bikéyah
- Neapolitan: Bielorussia
- Nepali: बेलारुस
- Nepali: बेलारूस
- Newari: बेलारुस
- North Ndebele: Bhelarusi
- Northern Frisian: Witjruslun
- Northern Luri: روٙسیە ئسبی
- Northern Sami: Vilges-Ruošša
- Northern Sami: Vilges-Ruošša dásseváldi
- Norwegian: Belarus
- Norwegian: Hviterussland
- Norwegian: Republikken Belarus
- Norwegian Bokmål: Belarus
- Norwegian Bokmål: Hviterussland
- Norwegian Bokmål: Republikken Belarus
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Belarus
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Kviterussland
- Novial: Belarus
- Occitan (post 1500): Bielorussia
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܒܠܐܪܘܣ
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܒܠܪܘܣ
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Hwitrussland
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Hwītrussland
- Oriya: ବେଲାଋଷ
- Oriya: ବେଲାରୁଷ୍
- Oromo: Beelaarus
- Ossetian: Беларусь
- Ossetian: Белорусси
- Pali: बेलारूस
- Pampanga: Belarus
- Pampanga: Bielorusya
- Pangasinan: Belaro
- Panjabi: ਬੇਲਾਰੂਸ
- Papiamento: Belarus
- Pedi: Belarus
- Persian: (نام دیگر و معروف، ولی نادرست:) روسیه سفید
- Persian: بلاروس
- Persian: بیلوروسی
- Persian: روسیه سفید
- Picard: Biélorussie
- Piemontese: Bielorussia
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Belerus
- Polish: Biała Ruś
- Polish: Białoruś
- Polish: Republika Białorusi
- Pontic: Λευκορουσία
- Portuguese: Belarus
- Portuguese: Bielo-Rússia
- Portuguese: Bielorrússia
- Portuguese: República da Belarus
- Portuguese: República da Bielorrússia
- Pushto: بلاروس
- Pushto: بیلاروس
- Pushto: بېلاروس
- Quechua: Belarús
- Quechua: Bilarus
- Quechua: Pilurusya
- Romanian: Belarus
- Romanian: Bielorusia
- Romanian: Беларус
- Romansh: Bielorussia
- Rundi: Belausi
- Russia Buriat: Беларусь
- Russia Buriat: Белоросууд
- Russian: Belarus’
- Russian: Respublika Belarus’
- Russian: Беларусь
- Russian: Белая Русь
- Russian: Белоруссия
- Russian: РБ
- Russian: Республика Беларусь
- Rusyn: Білорусь
- Rusyn: Білорусія
- Sakizaya: Belarus
- Samoan: Belarus
- Samoan: Pelarusa
- Samogitian: Baltarosėjė
- Sango: Belarüsi
- Sanskrit: बेलारूस
- Sanskrit: शुक्लरास्या
- Santali: ᱵᱮᱞᱟᱨᱩᱥ
- Santali: ᱵᱮᱞᱟᱨᱳᱥ
- Saraiki: بیلاروس
- Sardinian: Bielorussia
- Sardinian: Bielorùssia
- Saterfriesisch: Wietruslound
- Scots: Belaroushie
- Scottish Gaelic: A' Bhealaruis
- Scottish Gaelic: A’ Bhealaruis
- Serbian: Belorusija
- Serbian: Белорусија
- Serbo-Croatian: Belorusija
- Serbo-Croatian: Bilaṛuṣ
- Shan: မိူင်းပႄႇလႃႇရုတ်ႈ
- Shona: Belarus
- Shona: Belarusi
- Shona: Bherarusi
- Sicilian: Bielurussia
- Silesian: Bjołoruś
- Sindhi: بيلاروس
- Sindhi: بیلارس
- Sinhala: බෙලරුස්
- Sinhala: බෙලාරස්
- Sinhala: බෙලාරූස්
- Skolt Sami: Belarus
- Skolt Sami: Belaruuzz tääʹssväʹldd
- Skolt Sami: Viõʹlǧǧes-Ruõšš
- Skolt Sami: Viõʹlǧǧes-Ruõšš tääʹssväʹldd
- Slovak: Bielorusko
- Slovak: Bieloruská republika
- Slovenian: Belorusija
- Somali: Belarus
- South Azerbaijani: بلاروس
- Southern Sotho: Belarus
- Spanish: Belarus
- Spanish: Belarús
- Spanish: Bielorrusia
- Spanish: Republica de Belarus
- Spanish: República de Belarús
- Sranan Tongo: Belarusikondre
- Sundanese: Bélarus
- Swahili: Belarus
- Swahili: Belarusi
- Swati: IBhelalasi
- Swedish: Belarus
- Swedish: Republiken Belarus
- Swedish: Vitryssland
- Swiss German: Wiissrussland
- Sylheti: ꠀꠉꠞ ꠍꠥꠜꠤꠅꠔ ꠁꠃꠘꠤꠅꠘꠞ ꠄꠉꠥ ꠖꠦꠡ
- Sylheti: ꠛꠦꠟꠣꠞꠥꠡ
- Tachelhit: Bilaṛuṣ
- Tagalog: Belarus
- Tagalog: Biyelorusya
- Tahitian: Belarus
- Tahitian: Pierorūtia
- Tajik: Belarus
- Tajik: Belorus
- Tajik: Jumhurii Belarus
- Tajik: Беларус
- Tajik: Белорус
- Tajik: Русияи Сафед
- Tajik: Ҷумҳурии Беларус
- Talysh: Belarus
- Tamil: பெலருஸ்
- Tamil: பெலாரஸ்
- Taroko: Belarus
- Tatar: Акрусия
- Tatar: Беларус
- Tatar: Беларус Республикасы
- Tatar: Беларусия
- Tatar: Беларусь
- Tatar: Беларус Җөмһүрияте
- Tatar: Белоруссия
- Telugu: బెలారస్
- Tetum: Bielorúsia
- Thai: ประเทศเบลารุส
- Thai: เบลารุส
- Tibetan: བེ་ལུ་རུ་སུ།
- Tibetan: བྷེ་ལ་རསུ།
- Tigrinya: ቤላሩስ
- Tok Pisin: Belaras
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): Pelalusi
- Tosk Albanian: Weißrussland
- Tsonga: Belarus
- Tumbuka: Belarus
- Tunisian Arabic: روسيا البيضا
- Turkish: Belarus
- Turkish: Beyaz Rusya
- Turkmen: Belarus
- Twi: Belarus
- Tyap: Belarut
- Udmurt: Беларусь
- Udmurt: Белоруссия
- Uighur: بېلارۇسىيە
- Uighur: بېلورۇسسىيە
- Ukrainian: Білорусь
- Ukrainian: РБ
- Ukrainian: Республіка Білорусь
- Upper Sorbian: Belarus
- Upper Sorbian: Běłoruska
- Urdu: بیلارس
- Urdu: بیلاروس
- Uzbek: Belarus
- Venetian: Biełorùsia
- Veps: Vaugedvenä
- Veps: Vaugedvenäma
- Veps: Vaugedvenäman Tazovaldkund
- Veps: Vaugedvenän Tazovaldkund
- Vietnamese: Belarus
- Vietnamese: Byelorussia
- Vietnamese: Bê-la-rút (Belarus)
- Vietnamese: Bê-la-rút
- Vietnamese: Bạch Nga
- Vietnamese: Cộng hòa Belarus
- Vietnamese: Nga trắng
- Vlaams: Wit-Rusland
- Vlax Romani: Belarus
- Volapük: Belarusän
- Volapük: Vieta⸗Rusän
- Võro: Valgõvinne
- Walloon: Belarus
- Waray (Philippines): Belarus
- Waray (Philippines): Bielorrusia
- Welsh: Belarus
- Welsh: Belarws
- Western Armenian: Պելառուսիա
- Western Balochi: بیلاروسیه
- Western Frisian: Wit-Ruslân
- Western Frisian: Wyt-Ruslân
- Western Mari: Белорусси
- Western Panjabi: بیلارس
- Wolof: Belaarus
- Wolof: Belaris
- Wu Chinese: 白俄羅斯
- Wu Chinese: 白俄羅斯共和國
- Wu Chinese: 白羅斯
- Yakut: Беларусь
- Yiddish: בעלאַרוס
- Yiddish: בעלארוס
- Yiddish: װײַסרוסלאַנד
- Yoruba: Bélárúsì
- Yoruba: Bẹ̀lárùs
- Yue Chinese: 白俄羅斯
- Yue Chinese: 白俄羅斯共和國
- Yue Chinese: 白羅斯
- Zeeuws: Wit-Rusland
- Zhuang: Belarus
- Zulu: IBelarusi
- Zulu: i-Belarus
- Historic: Belorusskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika
- Historic: Byelaruskaya Savyetskaya Satsyyalistychnaya Respublika
- Historic: Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
- Historic: White Russian Soviet Socialist Republic
- Belaruś
- Belarûsseye
- Byelarus’
- Republic of Byelarus
- Russie Vianghe
- ma Pelalusi
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