Brest Region

Brest Region (; Bresckaja vobłaść; ; Brestskaya Oblast) is a province (voblast) o Belaroushie wi its admeenistrative center being Brest. 

Important ceeties athin the voblast' include: Baranovichi, Brest, an Pinsk.

 Geography 
It is locatit in the soothwastren pairt o Belaroushie, borderin the Podlasie an Lublin Voivodships o Poland on the wast, the Volyn an Rivne Oblasts o Ukraine on the sooth, the Grodno an Minsk Regions on the north, an the Gomel Region on the east. The voblast' covers at total aurie o 32,300 km², aboot 15,7% o the naitional total. 

It is aften dubbed the Wastren gateway tae Belaroushie. Geographically, the Brest Voblast belangs tae the aurie kent as Polesie. The aurie o the Voblast wis pairt o the Seicont Pols Republic frae 1921 till 1939 lairgely as the Polesie Voivodeship, when it wis joined tae the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic.

 Demographics 
The Brest Voblast haes a population o 1,462,900 (2004 estimate), aboot 14,7% o the naitional total. Aboot 47.2% o the voblast's population are men, an the remainin 52.8% are weemen.

O the major naitionalities livin in the Brest Voblast, 1,262,600 are Belaroushies (85%), 128,700 (8.6%) are Roushies, 57,100 (3.8%) are Ukrainians, an 27,100 (1.8%) are Poles.

Brest is the province wi the heichest birth rate in aw o Belaroushie. As o 2008, the birth rate wis 12.0 per 1000 an daith rate wis 13.4 per 1000. 

 Admeenistrative Subdiveesions 
The region wis formed in 1939 efter reunification o Wastren Belaroushie an the Byelorussian SSR. The day it comprises 16 destricts (raions), 225 selsovets, 20 ceeties, 5 ceety municipalities, 9 urban-type settlements, an 2178 veelages.

 Raions o Brest Voblast 
The saxteen raions (destricts) o the Brest Voblast are:
Brest Raion
Kamenets Raion
Malaryta Raion
Zhabinka Raion
Pruzhany Raion
Kobryn Raion
Drahichyn Raion
Biaroza RaionIvatsevichy Raion
Ivanava Raion
Baranavichy Raion
Lyakhavichy Raion
Hancavichy Raion
Luninets Raion
Pinsk Raion
Stolin Raion

 Ceeties an touns 
 Brest (; ) - 298,300
 Baranavičy (;  ) - 168,600
 Pinsk (; ) - 130,500
 Kobryn (; ) - 50,800
 Biaroza (; ) - 29,700
 Ivacevičy (; ) - 24,100
 Łuńińec (; )  - 23,900
 Pružany (; ) - 19,800
 Ivanava or Janava (; ) - 16,300
 Drahičyn (; ) - 15,000
 Hancavičy (; ) - 14,800
 Mikaševičy (; ) - 13,700 
 Biełaaźorsk (; ) - 13,200
 Žabinka (; ) - 12,800
 Stolin (; ) - 12,500
 Lachavičy (; ) - 11,600
 Małaryta (; ) - 11,500
 Kamiańec (; ) - 8,700
 Davyd-Haradok (; ) - 7,100
 Vysokaje (; ) - 5,300
 Kosava or Mereszowszczyzna (; ) - 2,400

 See an aw 
 Subdiveesions o Belaroushie
 Poland’s Polesie Voivodeship (1921-1939)

 Freemit airtins 
/ Brest Regional Executive Committee 


Category:Regions o Belaroushie
Category:States an territories established in 1939
Category:Ukrainian-speakin kintras an territories