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 water: 0 sq km land: 207,600 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
Coastline	0 km (landlocked)
Maritime claims	none (landlocked)
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.)
Natural hazards	NA
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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