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| Location: |
Eastern Europe, east of Poland
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| Geographic coordinates: |
53 00 N, 28 00 E
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| Map references: |
Commonwealth of Independent States
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| Area: |
total:
207,600 sq km
land:
207,600 sq km
water:
0 sq km
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| Area - comparative: |
slightly smaller than Kansas
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| Land boundaries: |
total:
3,098 km
border countries:
Latvia 141 km, Lithuania 502 km, Poland 605 km, Russia 959 km, Ukraine 891 km
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| Coastline: |
0 km (landlocked)
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| Maritime claims: |
none (landlocked)
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| Climate: |
cold winters, cool and moist summers; transitional between continental and maritime
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| Terrain: |
generally flat and contains much marshland
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| Elevation extremes: |
lowest point:
Nyoman River 90 m
highest point:
Dzyarzhynskaya Hara 346 m
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| Natural resources: |
forests, peat deposits, small quantities of oil and natural gas
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| Land use: |
arable land:
29%
permanent crops:
1%
permanent pastures:
15%
forests and woodland:
34%
other:
21% (1993 est.)
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| Irrigated land: |
1,000 sq km (1993 est.)
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| 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
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| Environment - international agreements: |
party to:
Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Sulphur 85, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands
signed, but not ratified:
Law of the Sea
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| Geography - note: |
landlocked
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