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.
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 ...
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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.
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...
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