General Information

The Republic of Belarus is situated in the heart of Europe, in the crossroads of trade routes from West to East and from North to South. It is crossed by shortest transport communications linking the CIS member-states with the countries of Western Europe. It borders on Lithuania and Latvia in the North, on Ukraine in the South, on the Russian Federation in the East, and on Poland in the West. The position of the county is of strategic importance for communication between the West and the East, the North and the South. The distance from Minsk to Warsaw is 500 kilometres, to Moscow - 700 kilometres, to Berlin - 1060 kilometres, to Vienna - 1300 kilometres.

The territory of the Republic is 207 thousand square kilometres populated by 10.2 mln. citizens, 70% of them are urban. About one fifth of the population live in the city of Minsk - the capital of Belarus.  Administratively, the Republic is divided into six regions. Belarusian and Russian are official state languages. The most widely spread languages of business contacts are Russian, English and German.
(Embassy of the Republic of Belarus)