Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Minsk
- Region
- Europe, Eastern Europe
- Population
- 9,085,991 (2025)
- Area
- 207,600 km²
- Currency
- Belarusian ruble (BYN)
- Languages
- Belarusian, Russian
- Calling code
- +375
- Internet domain
- .by
- ISO codes
- BY, BLR, 112
- Time zone
- UTC+3:00
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- ###### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Belarus covers about 207,600 square kilometres. By area it ranks 87th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Guyana and a little larger than Kyrgyzstan. It shares a land border with 5 neighbours: Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Russia, Ukraine. It is landlocked, which means it has no sea coast. Its centre lies at about 53° north, 28° east, in the northern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 9.09 million people live in Belarus (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 100th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure, with about 0.11 percent of the world's people. On average there are 44 people to each square kilometre. About 79 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 74 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: Belarusian, Russian. A person from Belarus is called Belarusian.
Money and economy
The currency is the Belarusian ruble (code BYN, symbol Br). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 93.4 billion (2025), which is about US$ 10,279 for each person (2025).
Time
Belarus uses one time zone, UTC+3:00 (Europe/Minsk). Clocks stay the same all year: there is no daylight saving time.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Minsk | 1,742,124 |
| Homyel' | 501,193 |
| Hrodna | 363,718 |
| Vitebsk | 358,927 |
| Mahilyow | 352,896 |
| Brest | 347,138 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in Eastern Europe
Moldova. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.