Is Belarus In The Ukraine?

Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, and historically Byelorussia, 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.

with a population of 9.3 million, Belarus is the 13th largest and the 20th most populous country in Europe. The country is administratively divided into seven regions with Minsk as the capital and largest city.

After the Polish-Soviet War, Belarus lost almost half of its territory to Poland. Much of the borders of Belarus took their modern shape in 1939 when some lands of the Second Polish Republic were reintegrated into it after the Soviet invasion of Poland and were finalized after World War II.

During World War II, military operations devastated Belarus, which lost about a quarter of its population and half of its economic resources.

The republic was redeveloped in the post-war years. In 1945, the Byelorussian SSR became a founding member of the United Nations, along with the Soviet Union.