Belarus

Biélorussie

Europe

Did you know?

•Belarus is landlocked and shares borders with five countries.
•Belarus has two official languages: Belarusian and Russian.
•The country shares the Bialowieza Forest with Poland, one of Europe's last primeval forests and a refuge for European bison.

Key Information

Capital

Minsk

Population

9,1 million

Area

207,600 km²

GDP

90,6 billion $

Currency

BYN

Difficulty on MapGuesser

Medium

Subregion

Eastern Europe

Calling code

+375

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Belarus is the large landlocked country east of Poland and between the Baltic states, Russia, and Ukraine.

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Official Languages

BelarusianRussian

Flag Colors

rougeblancvert

Flag History

The national flag of Belarus is an unequal red-green bicolour with a red-on-white ornament pattern placed at the hoist (staff) end. The current design was introduced in 2012 by the State Committee for Standardisation of the Republic of Belarus, and is adapted from a design approved in a May 1995 referendum. It is a modification of the 1951 flag used while the country was a republic of the Soviet Union. Changes made to the Soviet-era flag were the removal of communist symbols – the hammer and sic...

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