List of cities and towns in Belarus

Minsk, City Hall

Homyel’, Rumyantsev-Paskevich Residence

Mahilyow, City Hall

Vitsebsk, City Hall

Grodno, Cathedral of St. Francis Xavier

Brest, Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross

Babruysk, Church of the Immaculate Conception of Saint Virgin Mary

Baranavichy, Lenin Square

Barysaw, Church of the Resurrection of Christ

Pinsk, Jesuit collegium

Orsha, former Jesuit Cloister

Mazyr, Cathedral of Archangel Michael

Salihorsk, Administration Building

The following is the list of cities and towns in Belarus. Neither Belarusian nor Russian have equivalent words to English "city" and "town". The word horad^[1] (Belarusian: горад, Russian: город) is used for both. But Belarusian legislature provides the three-level hierarchy.^[2]

Overview

According to the Law under May 5, 1998, the categories of the most developed urban localities in Belarus are as follows:

• capital — Minsk;
• town of voblasć subordinance (Belarusian: горад абласнога падпарадкавання, Russian: город областного подчинения) — urban locality with the population of not less than 50,000 people; it has its own body of self-government, known as Council of Deputies (Belarusian: Савет дэпутатаў, Russian: совет депутатов) and an executive committee (Belarusian: выканаўчы камітэт, Russian: исполнительный комитет), which stand on the level with these of a rajon (Belarusian: раён).
• town of rajon surbodinance (Belarusian: горад раённага падпарадкавання, Russian: город районного подчинения) — urban locality with the population of more than 6,000 people; it may have its own body of self-government (Belarusian: Савет дэпутатаў, Russian: совет депутатов) and an executive committee (Belarusian: выканаўчы камітэт, Russian: исполнительный комитет), which belong to the same level as these of rural councils and of s.c. haradski pasiolak (Belarusian: гарадскі пасёлак, Russian: городской посёлок) (a type of a smaller urban locality).

This division was inherited by the contemporary Republic of Belarus from BSSR and introduced in 1938.^[3]

At the beginning of 2010 112 settlements had the status of a city/town. Among them:^[4]

• 12 towns of voblasć subordinance;
• 99 towns of rajon subordinance;
• Minsk — the capital of the country.

The list

See also

• Towns of Belarus
• Instruction on transliteration of Belarusian geographical names with letters of Latin script
• Names of Belarusian places in other languages
• List of renamed cities in Belarus

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cities and villages in Belarus.

• Current Status of United Nations Romanization Systems for Geographical Names of Belarus
• Belarus Maps at World-Gazetteer

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