Districts of Belarus

Regions (oblasts) and districts (raions) of Belarus

A district or raion (Russian: район, romanizedrayon, pl. районы, rayony; Belarusian: раён, romanizedrajon, pl. раёны, rajony)[1] in Belarus is the second-level administrative division in the country which are subordinate to regions (also known as oblasts).

  1. ^ According to the Instruction on Latin Transliteration of Geographical Names of the Republic of Belarus, Decree of the State Committee on Land Resources, Surveying and Cartography of the Republic of Belarus dated 23.11.2000 No. 15 recommended for use by the Working Group on Romanization Systems of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN) — "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-08-24. Retrieved 2009-07-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link). See also: Instruction on transliteration of Belarusian geographical names with letters of Latin script; Romanization of Belarusian.