Brest Region

Brest Region (Belaroushie: Брэ́сцкая во́бласць; Bresckaja vobłaść; Roushie: Бре́стская о́бласть; Brestskaya Oblast) is a province (voblast) o Belaroushie wi its admeenistrative center being Brest.

Important ceeties athin the voblast' include: Baranovichi, Brest, an Pinsk.

Geography

It is locatit in the soothwastren pairt o Belaroushie, borderin the Podlasie an Lublin Voivodships o Poland on the wast, the Volyn an Rivne Oblasts o Ukraine on the sooth, the Grodno an Minsk Regions on the north, an the Gomel Region on the east. The voblast' covers at total aurie o 32,300 km², aboot 15,7% o the naitional total.

It is aften dubbed the Wastren gateway tae Belaroushie. Geographically, the Brest Voblast belangs tae the aurie kent as Polesie. The aurie o the Voblast wis pairt o the Seicont Pols Republic frae 1921 till 1939 lairgely as the Polesie Voivodeship, when it wis joined tae the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic.

Demographics

The Brest Voblast haes a population o 1,462,900 (2004 estimate), aboot 14,7% o the naitional total. Aboot 47.2% o the voblast's population are men, an the remainin 52.8% are weemen.

O the major naitionalities livin in the Brest Voblast, 1,262,600 are Belaroushies (85%), 128,700 (8.6%) are Roushies, 57,100 (3.8%) are Ukrainians, an 27,100 (1.8%) are Poles.

Brest is the province wi the heichest birth rate in aw o Belaroushie. As o 2008, the birth rate wis 12.0 per 1000 an daith rate wis 13.4 per 1000. [1]

Admeenistrative Subdiveesions

The region wis formed in 1939 efter reunification o Wastren Belaroushie an the Byelorussian SSR. The day it comprises 16 destricts (raions), 225 selsovets, 20 ceeties, 5 ceety municipalities, 9 urban-type settlements, an 2178 veelages.

Raions o Brest Voblast

The saxteen raions (destricts) o the Brest Voblast are:

Brest Raion Kamenets Raion Malaryta Raion Zhabinka Raion Pruzhany Raion Kobryn Raion Drahichyn Raion Biaroza Raion

Ivatsevichy Raion Ivanava Raion Baranavichy Raion Lyakhavichy Raion Hancavichy Raion Luninets Raion Pinsk Raion Stolin Raion

Ceeties an touns

• Brest (Belaroushie: Брэст; Roushie: Брест) - 298,300
• Baranavičy (Belaroushie: Баранавічы; Roushie: Барановичи ) - 168,600
• Pinsk (Belaroushie: Пінск; Roushie: Пинск) - 130,500
• Kobryn (Belaroushie: Ко́брын, Ко́брынь; Roushie: Ко́брин) - 50,800
• Biaroza (Belaroushie: [Бяро́за, Бяро́за-Карту́ская] ; Roushie: Берёза) - 29,700
• Ivacevičy (Belaroushie: Івацэвічы; Roushie: Ивацевичи) - 24,100
• Łuńińec (Belaroushie: Лунінец; Roushie: Лунинец) - 23,900
• Pružany (Belaroushie: Пружаны; Roushie: Пружаны) - 19,800
• Ivanava or Janava (Belaroushie: Іванава, Янава; Roushie: Иваново) - 16,300
• Drahičyn (Belaroushie: Драгічын; Roushie: Дрогичин) - 15,000
• Hancavičy (Belaroushie: Ганцавічы; Roushie: Ганцевичи) - 14,800
• Mikaševičy (Belaroushie: Мікашэвічы; Roushie: Микашевичи) - 13,700
• Biełaaźorsk (Belaroushie: Белаазёрск; Roushie: Белоозёрск) - 13,200
• Žabinka (Belaroushie: Жабінка; Roushie: Жабинка) - 12,800
• Stolin (Belaroushie: Сто́лін; Roushie: Сто́лин) - 12,500
• Lachavičy (Belaroushie: Ляхавічы; Roushie: Ляховичи) - 11,600
• Małaryta (Belaroushie: Маларыта; Roushie: Малорита) - 11,500
• Kamiańec (Belaroushie: Камяне́ц; Roushie: Ка́менец) - 8,700
• Davyd-Haradok (Belaroushie: Давыд-Гарадок; Roushie: Давид-Городок) - 7,100
• Vysokaje (Belaroushie: Высокае; Roushie: Высокое) - 5,300
• Kosava or Mereszowszczyzna (Belaroushie: Косава; Roushie: Косово) - 2,400

See an aw

• Subdiveesions o Belaroushie
• Poland’s Polesie Voivodeship (1921-1939)

Freemit airtins

• (in Roushie)/(in Inglis) Brest Regional Executive Committee Archived 2020-06-02 at the Wayback Machine