Eastern Europe
Belarus
Minsk Region

Minsk

Minsk is the capital and largest city of the Republic of . Its population is about two million people in 2024. For many years after the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991, Minsk and Belarus, in general, had a reputation of a Soviet experience park.
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  • Type: City with 2,000,000 residents
  • Description: capital and largest city of Belarus
  • Also known as: “Mensk”, “Miensk”, “Mińsk”, “Minskas”, “Myensk”, “Myenyesk”, “Менск”, “Минск”, “Мінск”, and “明斯克市”
  • Postal code: 220000
  • Neighbors:
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Dinamo Stadium and National Art Museum.

Stadium
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Dinamo National Olympic Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Minsk, . It first opened in 1934 and has had several renovations over the years, reopening after the latest one in 2017.

Museum
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The of the Republic of Belarus is the largest art in and is located in its capital, Minsk. The museum comprises more than thirty thousands works of art which make up twenty various collections and constitutes two main ones: the one of national art and the other of art monuments of various countries of the world.

Church
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The Church of Saints Simon and Helena; Polish: Kościół św. Szymona i św. Heleny w Mińsku), also known as the Red Church, is a Roman Catholic church on Independence Square in Minsk, Belarus.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sierabranka and Dražnia.

Suburb
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Syerabranka or Serebryanka, is a residential microdistrict in in southeastern Minsk, .

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Neighborhood
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The Trinity Suburb is a historical district of Minsk located in the north-eastern part of the historical centre on the left bank of the river.

Minsk

Latitude
53.9025° or 53° 54′ 9″ north
Longitude
27.5618° or 27° 33′ 43″ east
Population
2,000,000
Elevation
222 metres (728 feet)
IATA airport code
MSQ
Open location code
9G59WH26+XP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26162465
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
625144
Wiki­data ID
Q2280
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Minsk” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Минск”
  • Achinese: “Minsk”
  • Adyghe: “Минск”
  • Afrikaans: “Minsk”
  • Albanian: “Minsk”
  • Albanian: “Minsku”
  • Amharic: “ሚንስክ”
  • Arabic: “مينسك”
  • Aragonese: “Minsk”
  • Armenian: “Մինսկ”
  • Arpitan: “Minsk”
  • Asturian: “Minsk”
  • Avaric: “Минск”
  • Azerbaijani: “Minsk”
  • Balinese: “Minsk”
  • Banjar: “Minsk”
  • Bashkir: “Минск”
  • Basque: “Minsk”
  • Bavarian: “Minsk”
  • Belarusian: “Miensk”
  • Belarusian: “Minsk”
  • Belarusian: “Менск”
  • Belarusian: “Мінск”
  • Bengali: “মিনস্ক”
  • Bengali: “মিন্‌স্ক”
  • Betawi: “Min (Ruslan Puti)”
  • Betawi: “Min”
  • Bhojpuri: “मिन्स्क”
  • Bhojpuri: “मिंस्क”
  • Bislama: “Minsk”
  • Bosnian: “Minsk”
  • Breton: “Minsk”
  • Bulgarian: “Минск”
  • Catalan: “Minsk”
  • Cebuano: “Minsk”
  • Central Bikol: “Minsk”
  • Central Kurdish: “مینسک”
  • Chavacano: “Minsk”
  • Chechen: “Минск”
  • Chinese: “Minsk”
  • Chinese: “明斯克”
  • Church Slavic: “Мѣнскъ”
  • Church Slavic: “Мѣньскъ”
  • Chuvash: “Минск”
  • Cornish: “Minsk”
  • Corsican: “Minsk”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Minsk”
  • Croatian: “Minsk”
  • Czech: “Minsk”
  • Danish: “Minsk”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Minsk”
  • Dutch: “Minsk”
  • Eastern Mari: “Минск”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مينسك”
  • Erzya: “Минск ош”
  • Erzya: “Минской”
  • Esperanto: “Minsko”
  • Estonian: “Minsk”
  • Ewe: “Minsk”
  • Extremaduran: “Minsk”
  • Faroese: “Minsk”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Minsk”
  • Finnish: “Minsk”
  • French: “Minsk”
  • Friulian: “Minsk”
  • Fulah: “Minsk”
  • Gagauz: “Minsk”
  • Galician: “Minsk”
  • Georgian: “მინსკი”
  • German: “Minsk”
  • Greek: “Μινσκ”
  • Greek: “Μίνσκ”
  • Gujarati: “મિન્સ્ક”
  • Haitian: “Minsk”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Minsk”
  • Hausa: “Miniska”
  • Hebrew: “מינסק”
  • Hindi: “मिन्‍स्‍क”
  • Hungarian: “Minszk”
  • Icelandic: “Minsk”
  • Ido: “Minsk”
  • Indonesian: “Minsk”
  • Interlingua: “Minsk”
  • Interlingue: “Minsk”
  • Irish: “Minsc”
  • Irish: “Mionsc”
  • Italian: “Minsk”
  • Japanese: “ミンスク”
  • Javanese: “Minsk”
  • Kabardian: “Минск”
  • Kabyle: “Minsk”
  • Kannada: “ಮಿನ್ಸ್ಕ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Minsk”
  • Kashubian: “Mińsk”
  • Kazakh: “Менск”
  • Kazakh: “Минск қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Минск”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Minsk”
  • Kirghiz: “Минск”
  • Komi: “Минск”
  • Kongo: “Minsk”
  • Korean: “민스크”
  • Kotava: “Minsk”
  • Kurdish: “Mînsk”
  • Ladino: “Minsk”
  • Lao: “ມິນສກ”
  • Latgalian: “Minska”
  • Latin: “Minscum”
  • Latvian: “Minska”
  • Ligurian: “Minsk”
  • Limburgan: “Minsk”
  • Lingala: “Minsk”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Minsk”
  • Literary Chinese: “明斯克”
  • Lithuanian: “Minskas”
  • Livvi: “Minsku”
  • Lombard: “Minsk”
  • Low German: “Minsk”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Minsk”
  • Luxembourgish: “Minsk”
  • Macedonian: “Минск”
  • Malagasy: “Minsk”
  • Malay: “Minsk”
  • Malayalam: “മിൻസ്ക്”
  • Maltese: “Minsk”
  • Manx: “Minsk”
  • Maori: “Minsk”
  • Marathi: “मिन्‍स्‍क”
  • Mazanderani: “مینسک”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Minsk”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bín-su-khek”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Minsk”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “敏斯克”
  • Minangkabau: “Minsk”
  • Mingrelian: “მინსკი”
  • Moksha: “Минск”
  • Mongolian: “Минск”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “مينسك”
  • Narom: “Minsk”
  • Nauru: “Minsk”
  • Navajo: “Dooʼawoshii Yílį́”
  • Neapolitan: “Minsk”
  • Nepali: “मिन्स्क”
  • Northern Frisian: “Minsk”
  • Northern Luri: “مینسک”
  • Northern Sami: “Minsk”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Minsk”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Minsk”
  • Norwegian: “Minsk”
  • Novial: “Minsk”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Miensk”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Minsk”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Minsck”
  • Ossetian: “Минск”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਿੰਸਕ”
  • Papiamento: “Minsk”
  • Persian: “مینسک”
  • Picard: “Minsk”
  • Piemontese: “Minsk”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Minsk”
  • Polish: “Mińsk Litewski”
  • Polish: “Mińsk”
  • Portuguese: “Minsk”
  • Pushto: “مینسک”
  • Quechua: “Minsk”
  • Romanian: “Minsk”
  • Romansh: “Minsk”
  • Russia Buriat: “Минск”
  • Russian: “Менск”
  • Russian: “Минск”
  • Rusyn: “Мінск”
  • Samogitian: “Minsks”
  • Sardinian: “Minsk”
  • Scots: “Minsk”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Minsk”
  • Serbian: “Minsk”
  • Serbian: “Минск”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Minsk”
  • Shona: “Minsk”
  • Sicilian: “Minsk”
  • Silesian: “Mińsk”
  • Sindhi: “منسڪ”
  • Sinhala: “මින්ස්ක්, බෙලරුස්”
  • Sinhala: “මින්ස්ක්”
  • Slovak: “Minsk”
  • Slovenian: “Minsk”
  • Southern Sotho: “Minsk”
  • Spanish: “Minsk”
  • Swahili: “Minsk”
  • Swedish: “Minsk”
  • Swiss German: “Minsk”
  • Tagalog: “Minsk”
  • Tahitian: “Minsk”
  • Tajik: “Минск”
  • Talysh: “Minsk”
  • Tamil: “மின்ஸ்க்”
  • Tatar: “Минск”
  • Telugu: “మిన్స్క్”
  • Thai: “มินสก์”
  • Thai: “มินสค์”
  • Tibetan: “མིན་སིཀ།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Minsk”
  • Turkish: “Minsk”
  • Turkmen: “Minsk”
  • Twi: “Minsk”
  • Udmurt: “Менск”
  • Udmurt: “Минск”
  • Uighur: “مىنىسكى”
  • Ukrainian: “Мінськ”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Minsk”
  • Urdu: “منسک”
  • Uzbek: “Minsk”
  • Venetian: “Minsk”
  • Veps: “Minsk”
  • Vietnamese: “Minsk”
  • Vietnamese: “Minxcơ”
  • Vlaams: “Minsk”
  • Vlax Romani: “Minsk”
  • Volapük: “Minsk”
  • Võro: “Minsk”
  • Walloon: “Minsk”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Minsk”
  • Welsh: “Minsk”
  • Western Armenian: “Մինսք”
  • Western Frisian: “Minsk”
  • Western Mari: “Минск”
  • Western Panjabi: “منسک”
  • Wolof: “Minsk”
  • Wu Chinese: “明斯克”
  • Yakut: “Минскай”
  • Yiddish: “Minsk”
  • Yiddish: “מינסק”
  • Yoruba: “Minsk”
  • Yue Chinese: “明斯克”
  • Zulu: “i-Minsk”
  • “ma tomo Minke”
  • “Minsk”
  • “Minsks”
  • “Минск”
  • “मिंस्क”

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