GeoPointe - Belarus

Official Name: Republic of Belarus
Location: Eastern Europe, east of Poland.
Capital: Minsk

Area:	total: 207,600 sq km
	land: 207,600 sq km
	water: 0 sq km

Lowest point: Nyoman River 90 m
Highest point: Dzyarzhynskaya Hara 346 m

Reconstruction Of A 10th Century Wooden Russian Orthodox Church., Vitebsk, Belarus

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Population: 9,724,723 (July 2007 est.) Nationality: Belarusian(s) Ethnic groups: Belarusian 81.2%, Russian 11.4%, Polish, Ukrainian, and other 7.4%. Religions: Eastern Orthodox 80%, other (including Roman Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, and Muslim) 20%. Languages: Belarusian, Russian, other.

Cold winters, cool and moist summers. Transitional between continental and maritime.

Government type: Republic.
Independence: 25 August 1991 (from the Soviet Union).
National holiday: Independence Day, 3 July (1944). 3 July 1944 was the date Minsk was liberated from German troops, 25 August 1991 was the date of independence from the Soviet Union.