Belarus
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Introduction - Belarus: | Location - Belarus: | Location | Eastern Europe, east of Poland | | Geographic coordinates | 53 00 N, 28 00 E | | Map references | Europe | | Area | total: 207,600 sq km
land: 207,600 sq km
water: 0 sq km | | Area comparative | slightly smaller than Kansas | | Land boundaries | total: 2,900 km
border countries: Latvia 141 km, Lithuania 502 km, Poland 407 km, Russia 959 km, Ukraine 891 km | | Coastline | 0 km (landlocked) | | Maritime claims | none (landlocked) | | Climate | cold winters, cool and moist summers; transitional between continental and maritime | | Terrain | generally flat and contains much marshland | | Elevation extremes | lowest point: Nyoman River 90 m
highest point: Dzyarzhynskaya Hara 346 m | | Natural resources | forests, peat deposits, small quantities of oil and natural gas, granite, dolomitic limestone, marl, chalk, sand, gravel, clay | | Land use | arable land: 26.77%
permanent crops: 0.6%
other: 72.63% (2005) | | Irrigated land | 1,310 sq km (2003) | | Natural hazards | NA | | Environment current issues | soil pollution from pesticide use; southern part of the country contaminated with fallout from 1986 nuclear reactor accident at Chornobyl in northern Ukraine | | Environment international agreements | party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Sulfur 85, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements | | Geography note | landlocked; glacial scouring accounts for the flatness of Belarusian terrain and for its 11,000 lakes | |
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This page was last updated on 16 September, 2007 Source: CIA >>> |