Eastern Europe
Belarus
Brest Oblast

Brest

Brest is a border town in the south-west corner of , near Terespol in . Brest is a city closely linked to the history of Central and Eastern Europe and the ever-changing borders.
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  • Type: City with 341,000 residents
  • Description: city of Belarus, capital of Brest Region
  • Also known as: “Bieraście”, “Brest-on-the-Bug”, “Brest, Belarus”, “Brisk”, “Brześć-Litewsk”, “Brześć-Litewski”, “Byeras’tsye”, and “Litovsk”
  • Historically known as: “Brest Litovsk”
  • Postal code: 224000
Photo: Dima Sugonyaev, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mukhavets and Brest Central.

River
Photo: Lite, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a river in western . A tributary of the , the rises in , Belarus, where the Mukha river and the Vyets canal converge, flows through south-western Belarus and merges with the Bug River in Brest.

Railway station
Photo: Barry Kent, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Brest-Tsentralny is the main railway station of Brest, Belarus.

Museum
Photo: Чаховіч Уладзіслаў, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The , located in the city of Brest, Belarus, is a museum centered around an archaeological site displaying an authentic East Slavic wooden town dating back to the 13th century.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Brest Fortress and Terespol.

Suburb
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, formerly known as Brest-Litovsk Fortress, is a 19th-century fortress in Brest, . In 1965, the title Hero Fortress was given to the fortress to commemorate the defence of the frontier stronghold during the first week of Operation Barbarossa, when Axis forces invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941.

Town
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is a border town in eastern on the border with . It lies on the border river Bug, directly opposite the city of Brest, Belarus. It has 5,794 inhabitants as of 2014.

Neighborhood
Photo: Dima Sugonyaev, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a neighborhood.

Brest

Latitude
52.0938° or 52° 5′ 38″ north
Longitude
23.6852° or 23° 41′ 7″ east
Population
341,000
Elevation
144 metres (472 feet)
IATA airport code
BQT
United Nations Location Code
BY BQT
Open location code
9G453MVP+G3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27171628
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
629634
Wiki­data ID
Q140147
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Brest” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “برست، برست”
  • Arabic: “برست”
  • Aragonese: “Brest”
  • Armenian: “Բրեստ”
  • Asturian: “Brest”
  • Azerbaijani: “Brest”
  • Bashkir: “Брест”
  • Basque: “Brest”
  • Belarusian: “Берасце”
  • Belarusian: “Берасьце”
  • Belarusian: “Брэст-Літоўск”
  • Belarusian: “Брэст”
  • Bengali: “ব্রিস্ত”
  • Breton: “Brest”
  • Bulgarian: “Брест”
  • Catalan: “Biérastse”
  • Catalan: “Brest-Litovsk”
  • Catalan: “Brest”
  • Cebuano: “Brest”
  • Chechen: “Брест”
  • Chinese: “布列斯特”
  • Church Slavic: “Бєрєстьє”
  • Church Slavic: “Брѣстъ”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Brest”
  • Croatian: “Brest-Litovsk” (historical)
  • Croatian: “Brest”
  • Czech: “Brest Litevský”
  • Czech: “Brest”
  • Czech: “Brisk”
  • Danish: “Brest”
  • Dutch: “Brest-Litovsk”
  • Dutch: “Brest”
  • Dutch: “Litovsk”
  • Eastern Mari: “Брест”
  • Erzya: “Брест ош”
  • Esperanto: “Bresto”
  • Estonian: “Brest”
  • Finnish: “Brest”
  • French: “Brest-Litovsk”
  • French: “Brest-sur-le-Boug”
  • French: “Brest”
  • Galician: “Brest, Belarús”
  • Galician: “Brest”
  • Georgian: “ბრესტი”
  • German: “Brest”
  • German: “Brisk”
  • German: “Litauisch-Brest”
  • German: “Brest-Litowsk” (historical)
  • Greek: “Μπρεστ-Λιτόφσκ”
  • Greek: “Μπρεστ”
  • Gujarati: “બ્રેસ્ટ”
  • Hebrew: “בריסק”
  • Hebrew: “ברסט ליטובסק”
  • Hebrew: “ברסט”
  • Hindi: “ब्रेस्ट”
  • Hungarian: “Breszt”
  • Icelandic: “Brest”
  • Ido: “Brest (Bielorusia)”
  • Ido: “Brest”
  • Indonesian: “Brest-Litovsk”
  • Irish: “Brest”
  • Italian: “Brest-Litovsk”
  • Italian: “Brest-Litowsk”
  • Italian: “Brest”
  • Italian: “Brėst”
  • Italian: “Brisk”
  • Italian: “Brześć nad Bugiem”
  • Japanese: “ブレスト”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ರೆಸ್ಟ್”
  • Kazakh: “Брест”
  • Kirghiz: “Брест”
  • Korean: “브레스트”
  • Latin: “Bressicia”
  • Latvian: “Bresta”
  • Lezghian: “Брест”
  • Lithuanian: “Brasta”
  • Lithuanian: “Brestas”
  • Lombard: “Brėst”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Brest”
  • Macedonian: “Брест”
  • Malay: “Brest”
  • Maltese: “Brest”
  • Manx: “Brest, y Velaroosh”
  • Manx: “Brest”
  • Marathi: “ब्रेस्त, बेलारूस”
  • Marathi: “ब्रेस्त”
  • Moksha: “Брэст”
  • Mongolian: “Брест”
  • Nauru: “Brest”
  • Northern Frisian: “Brest”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Brest”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brest i Belarus”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brest i Kviterussland”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brest”
  • Norwegian: “Brest”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Brest”
  • Ossetian: “Брест”
  • Persian: “برست، بلاروس”
  • Polish: “Brześć Litewski”
  • Polish: “Brześć nad Bugiem”
  • Polish: “Brześć”
  • Portuguese: “Brest”
  • Pushto: “برست (برست آیالات)”
  • Pushto: “برست”
  • Romanian: “Brest, Belarus”
  • Romanian: “Brest”
  • Russian: “Брест-Литовск” (historical)
  • Russian: “Брест”
  • Rusyn: “Брест”
  • Samogitian: “Brests”
  • Scots: “Brest, Belaroushie”
  • Scots: “Brest”
  • Serbian: “Брест”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Brest, Bjelorusija”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Brest”
  • Silesian: “Brest”
  • Sinhala: “බ්‍රෙස්ට්”
  • Slovak: “Brest”
  • Slovenian: “Brest-Litovsk”
  • Slovenian: “Brest, Belorusija”
  • Slovenian: “Brest”
  • Spanish: “Brest-Litovsk”
  • Spanish: “Brest”
  • Swedish: “Brest, Belarus”
  • Swedish: “Brest”
  • Tahitian: “Brest”
  • Tamil: “பிரெஸ்ட்”
  • Tatar: “Брест”
  • Telugu: “బ్రెస్ట్”
  • Thai: “เบรสต์”
  • Thai: “แบรสต์”
  • Turkish: “Brest, Belarus”
  • Turkish: “Brest”
  • Udmurt: “Брест”
  • Udmurt: “Брэст”
  • Ukrainian: “Берасьце”
  • Ukrainian: “Бересть”
  • Ukrainian: “Берестя”
  • Ukrainian: “Брест-Литовськ”
  • Ukrainian: “Брест”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Brest”
  • Urdu: “ایپے، لٹویا”
  • Urdu: “بریسٹ، بیلاروس”
  • Uzbek: “Brest”
  • Venetian: “Brėst”
  • Veps: “Brest”
  • Vietnamese: “Brest trên sông Bug”
  • Vietnamese: “Brest-Litovsk”
  • Vietnamese: “Brest, Belarus”
  • Vietnamese: “Brest”
  • Volapük: “Brest (Belarusän)”
  • Volapük: “Brest”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Brest, Belarus”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Brest”
  • Welsh: “Brest, Belarws”
  • Welsh: “Brest”
  • Wu Chinese: “布列斯特”
  • Yakut: “Брэст”
  • Yiddish: “Brisk”
  • Yiddish: “בריסק”
  • Yue Chinese: “布列斯特”
  • “Brests”

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