Belarus

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The General Knowledge book series, are designed for specific country, are one of the most admired book for the Knowledge improvement and learning purpose.This book contains an information about Background,Geography,Natural resources,Land use,Environment. Population,Sex ratio,flag of the county,Area,Border countries,Maritime claims,Elevation extremes,Land use,Natural hazards,Volcanism,Age structure,Median age,Net migration rate,Country comparison to the world,Religions,Languages,Literacy,School life expectancy ,Government,Time difference,Administrative divisions,Executive branch,Cabinet and almost everthing related with general knowledge.

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• Publié par: Zhimgoora Books
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 0001
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781300292821
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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Belarus

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Belarus (Europe)

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Introduction ::Belarus

Background:

After seven decades as a constituent republic of the USSR, Belarus

attained its independence in 1991. It has retained closer political

and economic ties to Russia than any of the other former Soviet

republics. Belarus and Russia signed a treaty on a two-state union

on 8 December 1999 envisioning greater political and economic

integration. Although Belarus agreed to a framework to carry out

the accord, serious implementation has yet to take place. Since his

election in July 1994 as the country's first president, Aleksandr

LUKASHENKO has steadily consolidated his power through

authoritarian means. Government restrictions on freedom of

speech and the press, peaceful assembly, and religion remain in place.

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Geography ::Belarus

Location: Eastern Europe, east of Poland

Geographic coordinates: 53 00 N, 28 00 E

Map references: Europe

Area:

Total: 207,600 sq km

Country comparison to the world: 85

Land: 202,900 sq km

Water: 4,700 sq km

Area - comparative: slightly smaller than Kansas

Land boundaries:

Total: 3,306 km

Border countries: Latvia 171 km, Lithuania 680 km, Poland 605

km, Russia 959 km, Ukraine 891 km

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Coastline: 0 km (landlocked)

Maritime claims: None (landlocked)

Climate: cold winters, cool and moist summers; transitional

between continental and maritime

Terrain: Generally flat and contains much marshland

Elevation extremes:

Lowest point: Nyoman River 90 m

Highest point: Dzyarzhynskaya Hara 346 m

Natural resources: Timber, peat deposits, small quantities of oil and

natural gas, granite, dolomitic limestone, marl, chalk, sand, gravel, clay

Land use:

Arable land: 26.77%

Permanent crops: 0.6%

Other: 72.63% (2005)

Irrigated land: 1,310 sq km (2003)

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Total renewable water resources: 58 cu km (1997)

Freshwater withdrawal (domestic/industrial/agricultural):

Total: 2.79 cu km/yr (23%/47%/30%)

Per capita: 286 cu m/yr (2000)

Natural hazards: NA

Environment - current issues: soil pollution from pesticide use;

southern part of the country contaminated with fallout from 1986

nuclear reactor accident at Chornobyl' in northern Ukraine

Environment - international agreements:

Party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-

Sulfur 85, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto

Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental

Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping,

Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands

Signed, but not ratified: None of the selected agreements

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Geography - note: Landlocked; glacial scouring accounts for the

flatness of Belarusian terrain and for its 11,000 lakes

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People ::Belarus

Population: 9,612,632 (July 2010 est.)

Country comparison to the world: 88

Age structure:

0-14 years: 14.3% (male 707,550/female 667,560)

15-64 years: 71.3% (male 3,337,253/female 3,540,916)

65 years and over: 14.5% (male 446,746/female 948,508) (2010 est.)

Median age:

Total: 38.8 years

Male: 35.8 years

Female: 41.8 years (2010 est.)

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Population growth rate: -0.368% (2010 est.)

Country comparison to the world: 221

Birth rate: 9.76 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)

Country comparison to the world: 198

Death rate: 13.81 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)

Country comparison to the world: 19

Net migration rate: 0.38 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)

Country comparison to the world: 65

Urbanization:

Urban population: 73% of total population (2008)

Rate of urbanization: 0% annual rate of change (2005-10 est.)

Sex ratio:

At birth: 1.062 male(s)/female

Under 15 years: 1.06 male(s)/female

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