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Belarus > Geography (Facts)
Belarus - Geography (Facts) |
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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 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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