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Tabular Data - Geography of Belarus
| 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 |
| 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.) |
| 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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