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| 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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