Location:
Eastern Europe, east of Poland
Geographic coordinates:
53 00 N, 28 00 E
Map references:
Europe
Area:
Area - comparative: Land boundaries:
Coastline: Maritime claims:
none (landlocked)
Climate: Terrain: Elevation extremes:
Natural resources: Land use:
Irrigated land: Total renewable water resources: Freshwater withdrawal (domestic/industrial/agricultural):
Environment - current issues: Environment - international agreements:
Geography - note:
total:
207,600 sq km
country comparison to the world: 86
land:
202,900 sq km
water:
4,700 sq km
slightly smaller than Kansas
total:
3,599 km
border countries:
Latvia 161 km, Lithuania 640 km, Poland 375 km, Russia 1,312 km, Ukraine 1,111 km
[see also: Land boundaries country ranks ]
0 km (landlocked)
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cold winters, cool and moist summers; transitional between continental and maritime
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generally flat and contains much marshland
lowest point:
Nyoman River 90 m
highest point:
Dzyarzhynskaya Hara 346 m
timber, peat deposits, small quantities of oil and natural gas, granite, dolomitic limestone, marl, chalk, sand, gravel, clay
arable land:
26.63%
permanent crops:
0.59%
other:
72.78% (2011)
1,150 sq km (2003)
[see also: Irrigated land country ranks ]
58 cu km (2011)
[see also: Total renewable water resources country ranks ]
total:
4.34 cu km/yr (32%/65%/3%)
per capita:
435.4 cu m/yr (2009)
soil pollution from pesticide use; southern part of the country contaminated with fallout from 1986 nuclear reactor accident at Chornobyl' in northern Ukraine
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
landlocked; glacial scouring accounts for the flatness of Belarusian terrain and for its 11,000 lakes