!!!Belarus: Geography ||Location|Eastern Europe, east of Poland ||Geographic Coordinates|53 00 N, 28 00 E[{GoogleMap location='53.0,28.0' zoom='4'}] ||Area |''total: ''207,600 sq km\\''land: ''202,900 sq km\\''water: ''4,700 sq km\\[[__''Verified in 8 databases''__] ||Land boundaries|''total: ''3,599 km\\''border countries: ''Latvia 161 km, Lithuania 640 km, Poland 375 km, Russia 1,312 km, Ukraine 1,111 km ||Coastline|0 km (landlocked) ||Elevation Extremes|''lowest point: ''Nyoman River 90 m\\''highest point: ''Dzyarzhynskaya Hara 346 m ||Highest Mountains| ||Terrain|generally flat and contains much marshland ||Natural Hazards|NA ||Natural Resource|timber, peat deposits, small quantities of oil and natural gas, granite, dolomitic limestone, marl, chalk, sand, gravel, clay ||Land Use|''arable land: ''26.63%\\''permanent crops: ''0.59%\\''other: ''72.78% (2011) ||Climate|cold winters, cool and moist summers; transitional between continental and maritime ||Irrigated Land|1,150 sq km (2003) ||Renewable Water Resources|58 cu km (2011) ||Environment_CurrentIssues|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 ||Large Cities|Minsk; Homel; Mahiljow; Vitebsk; Hrodna\\Minsk; Gomel; Mahilyow; Vitebsk; Hrodna\\ __[[List Verified]__\\__Explanation:__ "Gomel and Homel are alternate names"\\[Important Cities|Geography/Europe/Belarus/Geography/Important_Cities] ||Geography-note|landlocked; glacial scouring accounts for the flatness of Belarusian terrain and for its 11,000 lakes\\[Important Rivers|Geography/Europe/Belarus/Geography/Important_Rivers]