Map of Belarus

Belarus is located in Europe. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 53.0° N, 28.0° E. Belarus is landlocked, enclosed on every side by its 5 neighbours — Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Ukraine — with no coastline of its own. Within Europe, a continent of 45 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, Belarus is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Landlocked Belarus is surrounded by the following 5 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Belarus covers about 207,600 km² (80,155 sq mi). That makes it the 84th-largest country in the world by area and the 13th-largest in Europe, larger by area than 32 of the continent’s 45 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 9,109,280, the 99th-largest in the world and the 18th-largest in Europe, accounting for about 1.2% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Belarus has an average population density of about 44 people per km². Among the 45 countries of Europe it stands 18th by population and 13th by area.

The seat of government is Minsk, and the official currency is the Belarusian ruble (BYN, Br), and the main official languages are Belarusian and Russian. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+03:00.

Belarus carries the ISO country codes BY and BLR, dials on the international calling code +375 and uses the .by internet domain.

Belarus shares its land borders with 5 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Russia (capital Moscow, about 146,028,325 people), Poland (capital Warsaw, about 37,392,000 people), Ukraine (capital Kyiv, about 32,862,000 people), Lithuania (capital Vilnius, about 2,894,886 people) and Latvia (capital Riga, about 1,829,000 people).

By area, Belarus is larger than 2 of these neighbours and smaller than 3 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 53.0° N, 28.0° E and opens at zoom level 6, framing Belarus within Europe. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Minsk. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Belarus lies about 5,883 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. As a landlocked country, every direction from its borders leads onto neighbouring land rather than the open sea.

Belarus keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+03:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +03:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Belarusian ruble (BYN, Br).

The official languages are Belarusian and Russian, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +375 and websites commonly use the .by internet domain.

In short, Belarus is a landlocked country in Europe, sharing land borders with 5 countries. Its capital is Minsk. Belarus has a population of about 9,109,280 and covers around 207,600 km² (80,155 sq mi), ranking it 99th in the world by population and 84th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Belarus.

The flag of Belarus features a vertical band, with a white and red ornamental pattern, spanning about one-fifth the width of the field on the hoist side. Adjoining the vertical band are two horizontal bands of red and green, with the red band twice the height of the green band.

The flag of Belarus is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.