Belarus

Belarus is located in the Eastern part of the Europe. It has (this to me sound more natual! Although you can do without it.) borders with Poland on the West, Lithuania on the North-West, Latvia on the North, with Russia on the North-East and East and with the Ukraine on the South. Belarus is composed of 6 regions. Minsk is a capital of Belarus and the greatest political, economic, scientific and cultural center of the republic. The population of Minsk is over 1million 729 thousand.
Territory of Belarus is 207.6 square km. The extent from West to East is 650 km and from North to South 560 km. By size Belarus is greater than Belgium, Portugal, Czech, Greece and Austria.
According to preliminary data population census for October, 14th 2009, the population size is 9 millions 489 thousands. There are was 53.4 % of women and 46.6% men. Townspeople make up 74 % of the population and village people is 26%
There is more than 100 nationalities living in Belarus. The majority of the population are native inhabitants which makes up more than 30% from all of the entire population. Except As well as Byelorussians there lives are a significant amount of Russian, Poles, Ukrainians and representatives of other nationalities in the republic .