Contains Europe's last remaining primeval lowland forest, Biaลowieลผa, home to wild European bison.
๐ง๐พ
Belarus
Republic of Belarus ยท ะะตะปะฐััฬัั
Europe
ยท Eastern Europe
0Population
207.6Kkmยฒ of land
$6.66KGDP / person
MinskCapital
- ISO codes
- BY ยท BLR
- Density
- 46 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Belarusian, Russian
- Currency
- Belarusian ruble (BYN)
- Dial code
- +375
- Internet domain
- .by
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Landlocked
- Map centre
- 53.8220ยฐ N, 28.4180ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Belarusian
- UN region
- Eastern Europe
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- Upper middle income
- Total GDP
- $63.08B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 5
Highlighted in teal. Scroll to zoom, drag to pan, or hit ๐ for the globe.
By the numbers
How Belarus stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
95th
of 242 ยท 0.12% of world population
Land area
87th
of 242 ยท 0.14% of world land
GDP per person
127th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
160th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Belarus
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 9,466,856 people, the 95th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.12 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 207,600 kmยฒ, making it the 87th largest country here - about 6.8 times the size of Belgium.
Population density is about 46 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Minsk, at 53.90ยฐ N, 27.56ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 1,805,000.
Shares land borders with 5 countries: Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Ukraine.
Landlocked: every route to the sea crosses at least one border.
Keeps a single time zone, Europe/Minsk.
The currency is the Belarusian ruble (BYN, symbol Br).
Has 2 official languages: Belarusian and Russian.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Europe/Minsk
--:--:--
UTC+03:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
โ
Minsk
Minsk
53.9019ยฐ N, 27.5647ยฐ E
1.81M
2
Brest
Brest
52.1000ยฐ N, 23.7000ยฐ E
300.72K
Land neighbours
5 countries share a border with Belarus.