Geography (Belarus)
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     Total area:
         207,600 km2
     Land area:
         207,600 km2
     Comparative area:
         slightly smaller than Kansas
     Land boundaries:
         3,098 km total; Latvia 141 km, Lithuania 502 km, Poland 605 km, Russia 959
         km, Ukraine 891 km
     Coastline:
         none - landlocked
     Maritime claims:
         none - landlocked
     Disputes:
         none
     Climate:
         mild and moist; transitional between continental and maritime
     Terrain:
         generally flat and contains much marshland
     Natural resources:
         forest land and peat deposits
     Land use:
         arable land NA%; permanent crops NA%; meadows and pastures NA%; forest and
         woodland NA%; other NA%; includes irrigated NA%
     Environment:
         southern part of Belarus
         highly contaminated with fallout from 1986 nuclear reactor accident at
         Chernobyl'
     Note:
         landlocked