Belarus is located in Eastern Europe, it's mostly level terrain is broken up by the Belarusian Range (Byelaruskaya Hrada), a swath of elevated territory, composed of individual highlands, that runs diagonally through the country from west-southwest to east-northeast.
Its highest point is the 346-meter Mount Dzyarzhynskaya.
The country's terrain is mostly low-lying with some hills. Rivers include the Dniepr, the Dvina, the Neman and the Pripyat.
Minsk is the capital city. Other cities include Brest, Gomel, Grodno, Mogilev and Vitebsk.
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