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,^[1] which haes a special status being the caipital o Belaroushie. Minsk is an aa the caipital o Minsk Region.^[2]

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.^[3]

Map

No.	Subdiveesion	Caipital	Belaroushie	Population (01.01.2009 est.)[4]
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).^[3]

See an aa

• ISO 3166-2:BY, the ISO codes o the voblasts o Belaroushie.
• Touns o Belaroushie