Belarus

• Area: 207,600 sq. km (80,155 sq. mi.)
• Population: 9,570,376 (2016 est.)
• Population growth rate: -0.21% (2016 est.)
• Life expectancy: 72.7 years (2016)
• Languages: Russian (official) 70.2%, Belarusian (official) 23.4%
• Religions: Orthodox 48.3%, Catholic 7.1%, other 3.5%, non-believers 41.1%
• Formal name: Republic of Belarus
• Alternate names: Belorusskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika, Bielorussia, Byelaruskaya Savyetskaya Satsyyalistychnaya Respublika, Byelorussia, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Republic of Belarus, Republic of Byelarus, Respublika Byelarus’, White Russia
• Government type: presidential republic in name, although in fact a dictatorship
• Leaders: chief of state: president Aleksandr LUKASHENKO; head of government: prime minister Andrey KOBYAKOV
• Capital: Minsk
• Administrative divisions: 6 provinces
• GDP per capita (PPP): $17,700 (2015 est.)
• Exports: machinery and equipment, mineral products, chemicals, metals, textiles, foodstuffs
• Imports: mineral products, machinery and equipment, chemicals, foodstuffs, metals
• Currency: Belarusian ruble (BYB/BYR)

Current time in Minsk