Brest Oblast
Brest region, also known as Brest oblast or Brest voblasts, is one of the six regions of Belarus. Its administrative center is Brest. Other major cities in the region include Baranavichy, and Pinsk. As of 2024, it has a population of 1,308,569.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Brest and Pinsk.
Brest
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Brest is a border town in the south-west corner of Belarus, near Terespol in Poland. Brest is a city closely linked to the history of Central and Eastern Europe and the ever-changing borders.
Pinsk
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Pinsk is a city in Belarus in Brest Oblast located at the confluence of the Pina and Prypiat rivers. First mentioned in 1097, it enjoyed reasonable local importance for centuries, being at different times a seat of Orthodox bishops, a location of a big Jesuit college, and home for a thriving Jewish community.
Kosava
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Kosava or Kossovo is at town in Brest Oblast, Belarus, known mostly for the fine castle-palace and the museum at the birthplace of Tadeusz Kosciuszko, both in the former manor of Mereczowszczyzna at the outskirts of the town.
Brest Oblast
- Type: State with 1,380,000 residents
- Description: administrative divison (voblasć) in Belarus
- Also known as: “Bresckaja vobłasć”, “Brest”, “Brest Oblast (Belarus)”, “Brest region”, “Brest Region”, “Brest Voblast”, “Brestskaya Oblast”, “Brestskaya Voblasts’”, “Brestskaya Voblastsʼ”, and “Byeras’tseyskaya Voblasts’”
- Neighbors: Gomel Oblast, Grodno Oblast, Lubelskie, Minsk Region, and Podlaskie
- Categories: region of Belarus and locality
- Location: Belarus, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude of center
52.4122° or 52° 24′ 44″ northLongitude of center
25.2548° or 25° 15′ 17″ eastPopulation
1,380,000Elevation
139 metres (456 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 566296860OpenStreetMap feature
place=state
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yakut—“Brest Oblast” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أوبلاست بوبريسك”
- Arabic: “بريست أوبلاست”
- Arabic: “بوبريسك أوبلاست”
- Arabic: “بوبريسك”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة بريست”
- Armenian: “Բրեստի մարզ”
- Asturian: “Provincia de Brest”
- Azerbaijani: “Brest vilayəti”
- Bashkir: “Брест өлкәһе”
- Basque: “Bresteko oblasta”
- Belarusian: “Берасьцейская вобласьць”
- Belarusian: “Брэстская Вобластсь”
- Belarusian: “Брэсцкая вобласць”
- Belarusian: “Брэсцкая Вобласць”
- Belarusian: “Брэсцкая вобласьць”
- Bengali: “ব্রেস্ট অঞ্চল”
- Bosnian: “Brestska oblast”
- Bulgarian: “Брестка област”
- Catalan: “província de Biérastse”
- Catalan: “Província de Biérastse”
- Cebuano: “Bresckaja Voblasć”
- Cebuano: “Brest Oblast”
- Chechen: “Брестан область”
- Chinese: “Brest Chiu”
- Chinese: “布列斯特州”
- Church Slavic: “Бєрєстєиска ѡбласть”
- Crimean Tatar: “Brest vilâyeti”
- Croatian: “Brestska oblast”
- Czech: “Brest Oblast (Belarus)”
- Czech: “Brestská oblast”
- Danish: “Brest oblast”
- Danish: “Brest voblast”
- Dutch: “Oblast Brest”
- Eastern Mari: “Брест вел”
- Erzya: “Брестэнь ёнкс”
- Esperanto: “Bresta regiono”
- Estonian: “Bresti oblast”
- Finnish: “Brestin alue”
- French: “Brest”
- French: “Voblast de Brest”
- Galician: “Rexión de Bierascie”
- Galician: “Rexión de Brest”
- Georgian: “ბრესტის ოლქი”
- German: “Brest Oblast (Belarus)”
- German: “Brestskaja Oblast”
- German: “Breszkaja Woblasz”
- German: “Oblast Brest”
- German: “Woblast Brest”
- Greek: “Βόμπλαστ του Μπρεστ”
- Greek: “Περιφέρεια Μπρεστ”
- Gujarati: “બ્રેસ્ટ પ્રદેશ”
- Hebrew: “ברסט”
- Hindi: “ब्रेस्ट प्रदेश”
- Hungarian: “Breszti terület”
- Icelandic: “Brest-fylki”
- Ido: “Provinco Brest”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Brest”
- Italian: “Regione di Brėst”
- Italian: “Voblasc‘ di Brėst”
- Japanese: “ブレスト州”
- Kannada: “ಬ್ರೆಸ್ಟ್ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
- Korean: “브레스트주”
- Latin: “Regio Brestensis”
- Latvian: “Brestas apgabals”
- Lithuanian: “Bresto sritis”
- Malay: “Brest Region”
- Marathi: “ब्रेस्ट प्रदेश”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Brest Chiu”
- Mingrelian: “ბრესტიშ ოლქი”
- Moksha: “Брестсонь аймак”
- Moksha: “Брэстсонь аймак”
- Northern Frisian: “Brest”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Brest oblast”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Brest voblasts”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Brestskaja oblast”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Brestskaja voblasts”
- Norwegian: “Brest voblasts”
- Ossetian: “Бресты облæст”
- Persian: “منطقه بریست”
- Polish: “obwód brzeski”
- Polish: “Obwód brzeski”
- Portuguese: “Brest”
- Portuguese: “província de Brest”
- Portuguese: “voblast de Brest”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Brest”
- Russian: “Brestskaya Oblast’”
- Russian: “Брестская Oбласть”
- Russian: “Брестская область”
- Russian: “Брестская Область”
- Rusyn: “Брестьска область”
- Samogitian: “Bresta srėtės”
- Scots: “Brest Region”
- Serbian: “Брестска област”
- Sinhala: “බ්රෙස්ට් කලාපය”
- Slovak: “Brestská oblasť”
- Slovenian: “Brestovska oblast”
- Spanish: “Óblast de Brest”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Brest”
- Swedish: “Brest oblast”
- Swedish: “Brest voblast”
- Swedish: “Brests voblast”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Брест”
- Tamil: “பர்ஸ்ட் பகுதி”
- Tatar: “Брест өлкәсе”
- Telugu: “బ్రెస్ట్ ప్రాంతం”
- Thai: “เขคเบรสต์”
- Thai: “แคว้นแบรสต์”
- Turkish: “Brest Voblastı”
- Ukrainian: “Берестейська область”
- Ukrainian: “Брестська область”
- Urdu: “بریسٹ ریجن”
- Urdu: “بریسٹ علاقہ”
- Uzbek: “Brest viloyati”
- Vietnamese: “Brest”
- Vietnamese: “Khu vực Brest”
- Western Panjabi: “بریست اوبلاست”
- Wu Chinese: “布列斯特州”
- Yakut: “Брэст уобалаһа”
- “Bresckaja voblasć”
- “Bresta srėtės”
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