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Geography
Eastern Europe, east of Poland
53 00 N, 28 00 E
Area: 
total: 207,600 sq km
country comparison to the world: 
85
land: 202,900 sq km
water: 4,700 sq km
slightly smaller than Kansas
total: 3,306 km
border countries: Latvia 171 km, Lithuania 680 km, Poland 605 km, Russia 959 km, Ukraine 891 km
0 km (landlocked)
none (landlocked)
Current Weather
cold winters, cool and moist summers; transitional between continental and maritime
generally flat and contains much marshland
lowest point: Nyoman River 90 m
highest point: Dzyarzhynskaya Hara 346 m
timber, peat deposits, small quantities of oil and natural gas, granite, dolomitic limestone, marl, chalk, sand, gravel, clay
arable land: 26.77%
permanent crops: 0.6%
other: 72.63% (2005)
1,310 sq km (2003)
58 cu km (1997)
total: 2.79 cu km/yr (23%/47%/30%)
per capita: 286 cu m/yr (2000)
NA
soil pollution from pesticide use; southern part of the country contaminated with fallout from 1986 nuclear reactor accident at Chornobyl’ in northern Ukraine
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
landlocked; glacial scouring accounts for the flatness of Belarusian terrain and for its 11,000 lakes
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