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Sunday, November 8, 2009

Belarus


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BELARUS is located in Eastern Europe. Belarus is north of Ukraine, southeast of Latvia and Lithuania, west of Russia, and east of Poland. The capital of Belarus is Minsk, which is the living space for over 1.8 million residents. Other cities include Smalyavichy east of Minsk across the 28° E longitude line, Brest and Pinsk in the southwest, Hrodna and Lida in the west, Braslaw, Polatsk, and Vyerkhnyadzvinsk in the north, Krychaw and Mahilnow in the northeast, and Homyel', Mazyr, and Zhlobin (Žlobin) in the southeast. The currency is the Belarusian Ruble, and the ISO 4217 currency code is BYR.

Rounded flag of Belarus

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