Belarus

Facts

What the numbers say about Belarus

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 81.8× the size of Belarus.
• At 44 people per km², Belarus is the 123rd most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 54°N is drawn about 2.8× too large in area, so Belarus looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Belarus's main territory stretches about 544 km north to south and 641 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 208,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 207,000 km², to within 2%.

How Belarus measures up

Belarus holds 0.9% of the land area and 1.2% of the people of the 50 countries listed for Europe. In Eastern Europe it is the 5th largest of 10.

Where Belarus sits

• Belarus's centre lies at 53.5°N, 28.0°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 5,950 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 51°N to 56°N, about 550 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Belarus had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Belarus would have 259.9 million people. It has 9.1 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Belarus would have 772,000 people. It has 9.1 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 15.0 million.

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