BELARUS IN RUSSIA UKRAINE WAR

TOPIC: Geography

Section: Map

Context- The Belarusian border serves as the site for dialogue between Russia and Ukraine to possibly end the war.

Concept-

Belarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe.
It is bordered by
- Russia to the east and northeast,
- Ukraine to the south,
- Poland to the west, and
- Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest.
Belarus is the 13th-largest and the 20th-most populous country in Europe.
Minsk is the capital and largest city.
Major rivers are the west-flowing Western Dvina and Nyoman rivers, and the south-flowing Dnieper with its tributaries, the Berezina, Sozh, and Prypyat rivers.
- The Prypyat River has served as a bridge between the Dnieper, flowing to Ukraine, and the Vistula in Poland since the period of Kievan Russia.
Nearly one-third of the country is covered with pustaz, large unpopulated tracts of forests.