Biélorussie

Interesting Facts About Biélorussie

• Belarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe bordered by Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia.
• The country has a hemiboreal climate and spans 207,600 square kilometres.
• Ethnic Belarusians make up 84.9% of the population, with significant Russian (7.5%), Polish (3.1%), and Ukrainian (1.7%) minorities.
• Belarus has two official languages: Russian and Belarusian, though Russian is more commonly spoken at home (71.4%) than Belarusian (26%).
• Eastern Orthodox Christianity is the dominant religion, practised by 48.3% of the population, with Roman Catholicism concentrated in western regions around Grodno.
• Over 99% of Belarusians aged 15 and older are literate.
• Belarus was once a major centre of European Jews representing 10% of the population, though this number has significantly declined since the mid-20th century.
• Minsk, the capital, is home to nearly 1.9 million residents, while Gomel is the second-largest city with a population of 481,000.

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Minsk

Capitale de Biélorussie