| Brest Voblast (Brest Oblast) Брэ́сцкая во́бласць Бре́стская о́бласть |
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| Administrative center | Brest | ||
| Largest cities | Brest - 298,300 Baranovichi - 168,600 Pinsk - 130,500 |
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| Raions | 16 Cities: 20 Urban localities: 9 Villages: 2,178 |
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| Government | |||
| • Chairman | Kostantin Andreyevich Sumar | ||
| Area | |||
| • Total | 32,700 km2 (12,625.5 sq mi) | ||
| Population | |||
| • Total | 1,445,600 | ||
| • Density | 44/km2 (114/sq mi) | ||
| Website | www.brest-region.by | ||
Brest Voblast (Province) or Brest Oblast (Belarusian: Брэ́сцкая во́бласць; Bresckaja vobłaść; Russian: Бре́стская о́бласть; Brestskaya Oblast) is a province (voblast) of Belarus with its administrative center being Brest.
Important cities within the voblast' include: Baranovichi, Brest, and Pinsk.
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It is located in the southwestern part of Belarus, bordering the Podlasie and Lublin Voivodships of Poland on the west, the Volyn and Rivne Oblasts of Ukraine on the south, the Hrodna and Minsk Voblasts on the north, and the Homyel Voblast on the east. The voblast' covers at total area of 32,300 km², about 15,7% of the national total.
It is often dubbed the Western gateway to Belarus. Geographically, the Brest Voblast belongs to the area known as Polesia. The area of the Voblast was part of the Second Polish Republic from 1921 until 1939 largely as the Polesie Voivodeship, when it was joined to the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic.
The Brest Voblast has a population of 1,462,900 (2004 estimate), about 14,7% of the national total. About 47.2% of the voblast's population are men, and the remaining 52.8% are women.
Of the major nationalities living in the Brest Voblast, 1,262,600 are Belarusians (85%), 128,700 (8.6%) are Russians, 57,100 (3.8%) are Ukrainians, and 27,100 (1.8%) are Poles.
Brest is the province with the highest birth rate in all of Belarus. As of 2008, the birth rate was 12.0 per 1000 and death rate was 13.4 per 1000. [1]
The region was formed in 1939 after reunification of Western Belarus and the Byelorussian SSR. Today it comprises 16 districts (raions), 225 selsovets, 20 cities, 5 city municipalities, 9 urban-type settlements, and 2178 villages.
The sixteen raions (districts) of the Brest Voblast are:
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