| Climate Belarus :
| cold winters, cool and moist summers; transitional between continental and maritime
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| Terrain Belarus :
| generally flat and contains much marshland
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| Elevation extremes lowest Belarus :
| Nyoman River 90 m
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| Elevation extremes highest Belarus :
| Dzyarzhynskaya Hara 346 m
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| Natural resources Belarus :
| forests, peat deposits, small quantities of oil and natural gas, granite, dolomitic limestone, marl, chalk, sand, gravel, clay
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| Land use arableland Belarus :
| 29,55%
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| Irrigated land Belarus :
| 1,150 sq km (1998 est.)
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| Natural hazards Belarus :
| NA
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| Environment current issues Belarus :
| soil pollution from pesticide use; southern part of the country contaminated with fallout from 1986 nuclear reactor accident at Chornobyl' in northern Ukraine
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| Geography note Belarus :
| landlocked; glacial scouring accounts for the flatness of Belarusian terrain and for its 11,000 lakes; the country is geologically well endowed with extensive deposits of granite, dolomitic limestone, marl, chalk, sand, gravel, and clay
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