Regions of Belarus

Regions of Belarus
CategoryFirst-level subdivision of a unitary state
LocationBelarus
Created
  • 1960
Number6 regions
1 Capital city
Populations(Regions only): 981,174 (Mogilev) – 1,992,862 (Minsk)
Areas(Provinces only): 25,118.1 km2 (9,698.14 sq mi) (Grodno) – 40,361.6 km2 (15,583.72 sq mi) (Gomel)
Government
  • Province government
Subdivisions

At the top level of administration, Belarus is divided into six regions and one capital city. The six regions are oblasts (also known as voblastsi), while the city of Minsk has a special status as the capital of Belarus.[1] Minsk also serves as the administrative center of Minsk Region.[2]

At the second level, the regions are divided into districts (raions).

The layout and extent of the regions were set in 1960 when Belarus (then the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic) was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union.[3]

  1. ^ Belarus Regions
  2. ^ Minsk summary, at the website of the Belarus embassy in Russia.
  3. ^ "Regions of Belarus". Statoids.