Belarus
Names and codes: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0 · Boundary: Natural Earth, public domain · Refresh date not recorded · Sources and licenses
Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- BY
- ISO alpha-3
- BLR
- ISO numeric
- 112
- FIPS 10-4
- BO
- GeoNames ID
- 630336
Key facts
- Capital
- Minsk
- Area
- 207,600 km²
- Population
- 9,485,386
- Currency
- Belarusian ruble (BYN)
- Calling code
- +375
- Top-level domain
- .by
- Official languages
- be,ru
Continent
- Name
- Europe
- Code
- EU
- In this dataset
- 54 countries
Location
- Latitude
- 53
- Longitude
- 28
- Min latitude
- 51.2351683560001
- Min longitude
- 23.165644979000035
- Max latitude
- 56.15680592900007
- Max longitude
- 32.71953210400005
Boundary
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/BY?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 207600,
"capital": "Minsk",
"continent_code": "EU",
"currency_code": "BYN",
"iso3_code": "BLR",
"iso_code": "BY",
"name": "Belarus",
"population": 9485386
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/BY/regions/v1/cities?country=BY/v1/postal-codes?country=BY/v1/timezones?country=BY
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- بيلاروس
- Chinese
- 白俄罗斯
- English
- Belarus
- French
- Biélorussie
- German
- Belarus
- Hindi
- बेलारूस
- Italian
- Bielorussia
- Japanese
- ベラルーシ
- Korean
- 벨라루스
- Portuguese
- Bielorrússia
- Russian
- Беларусь
- Spanish
- Bielorrusia
- Total language variants
- 154
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| Europe/Minsk | UTC+03:00 | UTC+03:00 |
Postal code format
- Format
- ######
- Pattern
^(\d{6})$
First-level administrative regions
- Horad Minsk
- Minsk Oblast
- Homyel’ Voblasc’
- Brest Oblast
- Vitebsk Oblast
- Grodno Oblast
- Mogilyov Oblast
7 of 7 shown, largest first
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| Minsk | 1,742,124 |
| Homyel' | 501,193 |
| Hrodna | 363,718 |
| Vitebsk | 358,927 |
| Mahilyow | 352,896 |
| Brest | 347,138 |
| Bobruysk | 205,502 |
| Baranovichi | 170,039 |
| Barysaw | 133,700 |
| Pinsk | 123,283 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 26,775
- First-level regions
- 7
- Postal codes
- 3,133
- Name languages
- 154
- Boundary polygon
- Yes
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