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Capital Belarus : |
Minsk .
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| Land Boudaries Border Country Belarus :
| Latvia 141 km, Lithuania 502 km, Poland 407 km, Russia 959 km, Ukraine 891 km .
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| Climate Belarus :
| cold winters, cool and moist summers; transitional between continental and maritime .
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| Life expectancy Belarus :
| 68.57 years .
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| Fertility rate Belarus :
| 1.36 children born/woman (2004 est.) .
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| Government type Belarus :
| republic .
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| Population Belarus :
| 10,310,520 (July 2004 est.) .
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| Area Total Belarus :
| 207,600 sq km .
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| Telephones Main Lines In Use Belarus :
| 3,071,300 (2003) .
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| Telephones Mobile Cellular Belarus :
| 1.118 million (2003) .
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| International Country Code Belarus :
| 375.
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| Current account balance Belarus :
| $-945 million (2003) |
| HIV Belarus :
| 0.3% (2001 est.) |
| Population below poverty line Belarus :
| 22% (1995 est.) |
| Literacy Belarus :
| 99,60% |
| House hold income lowest than 10% Belarus :
| 5,10% |
| House hold income highest than 10% Belarus :
| 20% (1998) |
| Inflation Belarus :
| 28.2% (2003 est.) |
| Unemployment Rate Belarus :
| 2.1% officially registered unemployed (December 2000); large number of underemployed workers (2003 est.) |
| Internet Users Belarus :
| 1,391,900 (2003) |
| Location Belarus :
| Eastern Europe, east of Poland |
| Geographic Coordinates Belarus :
| 53 00 N, 28 00 E |
| Religion Belarus :
| Eastern Orthodox 80%, other (including Roman Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, and Muslim) 20% (1997 est.) |
| Administrative region Belarus :
| 6 voblastsi (singular - voblasts') and one municipality* (harady, singular - horad); Brestskaya (Brest), Homyel'skaya (Homyel'), Horad Minsk*, Hrodzyenskaya (Hrodna), Mahilyowskaya (Mahilyow), Minskaya, Vitsyebskaya (Vitsyebsk); note - when using a place name with the adjectival ending 'skaya,' the word Voblasts' should be added to the place name |
| Terrain Belarus :
| generally flat and contains much marshland |
| Elevation extremes lowest Belarus :
| Nyoman River 90 m |
| Elevation extremes highest Belarus :
| Dzyarzhynskaya Hara 346 m |
| Natural resources Belarus :
| forests, peat deposits, small quantities of oil and natural gas, granite, dolomitic limestone, marl, chalk, sand, gravel, clay |
| Land use arable land Belarus :
| 29,55% |
| Land use permanentcrops Belarus :
| 0,60% |
| Irrigated land Belarus :
| 1,150 sq km (1998 est.) |
| Natural hazards Belarus :
| NA |
| Environment current issues Belarus :
| soil pollution from pesticide use; southern part of the country contaminated with fallout from 1986 nuclear reactor accident at Chornobyl' in northern Ukraine |
| Geography note Belarus :
| landlocked; glacial scouring accounts for the flatness of Belarusian terrain and for its 11,000 lakes; the country is geologically well endowed with extensive deposits of granite, dolomitic limestone, marl, chalk, sand, gravel, and clay |
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