The total length of the state border is 3,km. Belarus is a compact country with a slightly longer horizontal axis. The country stretches km from north to south, and km from west to east. Belarus is a medium-sized European state. Belarus is nearly as big as Romania and the UK. Belarus is located in the East European Platform. The country has a predominantly flat terrain intersected by hills, flatlands, and lowlands with marshes and lakes. The northern part is called the Belarusian Lake District.
It features glacial relief, hills and ridges. The middle part is located in the glaciolacustrine zone of the Belarusian Ridge and in the East Belarusian plateau-like lowland. The southern part features morainic and aquaglacial plains of sub-Polesie and flat, often marshy lowlands of Polesie.
Belarus is located in the water basins of the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea. There are 20, rivers with the total length of 90,km in the country. The biggest rivers are the Dnieper, the Western Dvina, and the Neman. There are almost 11, lakes in Belarus. The biggest lake in Belarus is Naroch They are further divided into districts. The Population of Ukraine - chart plots the total population count as of July 1 of each year, from to Population : Overall total population both sexes and all ages in the country as of July 1 of the year indicated, as estimated by the United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division.
World Population Prospects: The Revision. For forecasted years, the U. For all other years: latest year annual percentage change equivalent assuming homogeneous change in the preceding five year period, calculated through reverse compounding.
Yearly Change : For absolute change in total population increase or decrease in number of people over the last year from July 1, to June 30 For all other years: average annual numerical change over the preceding five year period.
Migrants net : The average annual number of immigrants minus the number of emigrants over the preceding five year period running from July 1 to June 30 of the initial and final years , or subsequent five year period for data. A negative number means that there are more emigrants than immigrants.
Median Age : age that divides the population into two numerically equal groups: half of the people are older than the median age indicated and half are younger. This parameter provides an indication of age distribution. It is calculated as the average number of children an average woman will have during her reproductive period 15 to 49 years old based on the current fertility rates of every age group in the country, and assuming she is not subject to mortality.
Urban Population : Population living in areas classified as urban according to the criteria used by each country.
Its forests, steppes, and tundras provide habitat for many rare animals, including Asiatic black bears, snow leopards , polar bears , and small, rabbit-like mammals called pikas. Russia's first national parks were set up in the 19th century, but decades of unregulated pollution have taken a toll on many of the country's wild places. Currently, about one percent of Russia's land area is protected in preserves, known as zapovedniks.
Russia's most famous animal species is the Siberian tiger , the largest cat in the world. Indigenous to the forests of eastern Russia, these endangered giants can be 10 feet 3 meters long, not including their tail, and weigh up to pounds kilograms. Russia's history as a democracy is short. The country's first election, in , was quickly reversed by the Bolsheviks, and it wasn't until the election of Boris Yeltsin that democracy took hold.
Russia is a federation of 86 republics, provinces, territories, and districts, all controlled by the government in Moscow. The head of state is a president elected by the people. The economy is based on a vast supply of natural resources, including oil, coal, iron ore, gold, and aluminum. The earliest human settlements in Russia arose around A. These settlers mixed with Slavs from the west and built a fortress that would eventually become the Ukrainian city of Kiev.
Kiev evolved into an empire that ruled most of European Russia for years, then broke up into Ukraine, Belarus, and Muscovy. Muscovy's capital, Moscow, remained a small trading post until the 13th century, when Mongol invasions in the south drove people to settle in Moscow. In , Peter the Great became tsar at the age of ten and for 42 years worked to make Russia more modern and more European. In , Russians unhappy with their government overthrew the tsar and formed an elected government.
Just a few months later though, a communist group called the Bolsheviks seized power.
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