Regions o Belaroushie

At the top level o admeenistration, the Eastren European kintra o Belaroushie is dividit intae sax voblasts (meanin "provinces" or "regions") an the ceety o Minsk,Belarus Regions which haes a special status being the caipital o Belaroushie. Minsk is an aa the caipital o Minsk Region.Minsk summary , at the wabsteid o the Belaroushie embassy in Roushie.

At the seicont level, the voblasts are dividit intae raions ("districts").

The layoot an extent o the voblasts wur set in 1960 when Belaroushie (then Byelorussian SSR) wis a pairt o the Soviet Union.Kratkaya Geograficheskaya Entsiklopediya, Moscow, 1960. History of Soviet Beylorussian Oblasts

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 No. Subdiveesion Caipital Belaroushie Population(01.01.2009 est.)Official population estimations 01-01-2009 File:Subdivisions of Belarus.png  1 Minsk (caipital) Мінск 1,829,100 2 Brest Region  Brest Брэсцкая вобласць 1,433,100 3 Gomel Region Gomel Гомельская вобласць 1,464,500 4 Grodno Region Hrodna Гродзенская вобласць 1,102,800 5 Mogilev Region Mogilev Магілёўская вобласць 1,123,100 6 Minsk Region Minsk Мінская вобласць 1,454,000 7 Vitebsk Region Vitebsk Віцебская вобласць 1,265,300

 History 
At the stairt o the 20t century, the bundaries o the Belaroushie lands athin the Roushie Empire wur still being defined. The amoont o territory that wis cried Belaroushie contained the entire Minsk Govrenorate an Mogilev Govrenorate, the majority o Hrodna Govrenorate, pairts o Vitebsk Govrenorate an the pairts o Vilna Govrenorate (the latter is nou in Lithuanie).

 See an aa 
 ISO 3166-2:BY, the ISO codes o the voblasts o Belaroushie.
 Touns o Belaroushie

 References 

 External links 
 Current Status of United Nations Romanization Systems for Geographical Names of Belarus


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