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Belarus is: a landlocked country; Location: Northern Hemisphere and Eastern Hemisphere; Eurasia. Europe. Eastern Europe; Time zone: Eastern European Time , Eastern European Summer Time ; Extreme points of Belarus. High: Dzyarzhynskaya Hara 346 m (1,135 ft) Low: Neman River 90 m (295 ft) Land boundaries: 3,306 km Russia 959 km Ukraine 891 km
Belarus, [b] officially the Republic of Belarus, [c] is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an area of 207,600 square kilometres (80,200 sq mi) with a population of 9.1 million.
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Central Europe; Eastern Europe; Northern Europe; Southern Europe; Western Europe; United Nations geoscheme for Europe; Countries of Europe. List of European countries.
While Novaya Zemlya was variously grouped with Europe or with Asia in 19th-century maps it is now usually grouped with Europe, the continental boundary considered to join the Arctic Ocean along the southern shore of the Kara Sea. The Russian Arctic archipelago of Franz Josef Land farther north is also associated with Europe.
National Atlas of Belarus (Belarusian: Нацыянальны атлас Беларусі) is a fundamental state scientific publication: a cartographic work (atlas), which highlights modern data about Belarus, it characterizes the natural conditions and resources, demographic, economic, and historical situation in the country.
The deepest lake in Belarus is the Doŭhaje (53.7 m). The Chervonoye is the most shallow among the large lakes, with a maximum depth of 4 m. The majority of large lakes are situated in northern Belarus. In Braslaw and Ušačy districts, lakes cover more than 10% of their territory. [6]
The following is an alphabetical list of subregions in the United Nations geoscheme for Europe, created by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). [1] The scheme subdivides the continent into Eastern Europe, Northern Europe, Southern Europe, and Western Europe. The UNSD notes that "the assignment of countries or areas to specific ...