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Geography Of Belarus
Belarus Information - Country Guides

Location Eastern Europe, east of Poland
Geographic coordinates 53 00 N, 28 00 E
Map references europe 
Area total: 207,600 sq km
water: 0 sq km
land: 207,600 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: 29.55%
permanent crops: 0.6%
other: 69.85% (2001)
Irrigated land 1,150 sq km (1998 est.)
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, desertification, endangered species, environmental modification, hazardous wastes, marine dumping, ozone layer protection, ship pollution, wetlands
signed, but not ratified: law of the sea
Geography note 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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