- Capital: Minsk
- Major City: Homyel
- Major Geographical Features
- Belorussian Ridge
- Polatsk Lowland
- Polesye Marshes
- Official Name: Republic of Belarus
- Formerly: The Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
- Religion: Eastern Orthodox (80%)
- Languages:
- Byelorussian
- Russian
- Independence: 1991 from the Soviet Union
- Government: republic by name, when the nation is in fact a dictatorship
- Currency: Belorussian ruble (BYB/BYR)
- Kansas is slightly larger than Belarus
- Literacy: 99.6%
- Climate: cold winters with cool summers
- Landlocked
- Belarus has a lot of glacial scoring, leading to over 1,000 lakes
- Home to large deposits of granite, limestone, marble, chalk, sand, gravel, and clay
- Belarus has the strongest political ties to Russia of the former Soviet republics
- Minsk is home to the headquarters of the Commonwealth of Independent States
- Belarus means "White Russia"
- 70% of the radiation from the Chernobyl incident is in Belarus
- Exports
- Cars
- Iron
- Steel
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