The southern part of Belarus belongs to Polesse area which is flat and overswamped. This is the Pripyat and Dnepr big river catchments. Glacial lakes are rare, density of river network is relatively low, but rivers are mainly larger with large marshy floodplains. Deciduous forest and pine forest occupy large areas. There are mainly marshes among large-scale wetlands, but many of them were recently drained.
Anthropogenic landscape occupies about a half of the area.