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BELARUS

GREAT BRITAIN

Area

207 600 sq km

244 000 sq km

Area comparative

Bigger than Greece, Bulgaria

Border countries

Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, the Ukraine

There are no land boundaries except that of Ireland; It lies only 35 km from France (now is linked by the tunnel under the English Channel)

Climate

Moderately continental (cold winters and cool moist summers)

Temperate. More than 1/2 of the days are overcast;

Terrain(surface)

Generally flat, contains much marshland;

the lowest point – The Neman river;

the highest point - Holly mountain [Khara Dzyarzhinskaya] (346 m)

Mostly rugged hills and low mountains;

the highest point – Ben Nevis (1346 m)

Natural resources

Forests, peat deposits, sand, phosphate, coal, iron, non-iron metals, small quantities of oil and natural gas;

potassium salt deposits are the second largest in Europe

Coal, petroleum, natural gas, lime syoun, iron ore, salt, clay, chock, lead;

Environment

Soil pollution from pesticide use; southern part of the country is contaminated with radioactive fallout after Chernobyl accident

Sulfodioxide emissions from power plants contributed to the air pollution;

some rivers and costal waters are polluted by agricultural wastes and disposal of sewage

Population

The density of

life expectancy of birth for the total population is 68,4; male 62,48 & female 74,61

The density of

life expectancy of birth for the total population is 77; male 74,67 & female 79,96

Industries

Tractors, metal cutting machine tools, trucks with different load capacity, chemical fibres, other consumer goods

Processing, machinery, including machine-tools, electric power, automation & rail-road equipment, ship building & aircraft, vehicles, food processing and other consumer goods

Import

Fuel, natural gas, industrial raw materials, textile and sugar

Export

Machinery, transport equipment, food & other consumer goods

Trade partners

Russia, the Ukraine, Poland, Germany, Iran, China

Germany, France, Holland, USA

Highways

70000 km

388831 km

Airports

118

Ports

1 (Mazir)

Railways

5590 km

the principal form of transportation with its main strategic link Moscow-Brest-Berlin

17561 km