Minsk Region
Minsk region, also known as Minsk oblast or Minsk voblasts, is one of the six regions of Belarus. Its administrative center is Minsk, although it is a separate administrative territorial entity of Belarus.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Minsk and Barysaŭ.
Minsk
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Minsk is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Belarus. 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.
Barysaŭ
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Barysaw or Borisov is a city in Minsk Region, in central Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Barysaw District. It is located on the Berezina River and 74 kilometres north-east from the capital Minsk. As of 2025, it has a population of 134,732.
Slutsk
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Slutsk is a city in Minsk Oblast, Belarus. Ornamental silk sashes woven in Slutsk were once famous throughout the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and today the town has a museum dedicated to them.
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Nesvizh
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Nyasvizh or Nesvizh is a town in Minsk Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative centre of Nyasvizh District. Nyasvizh is the site of Nesvizh Castle, a World Heritage Site. In 2009, its population was 14,300. As of 2025, it has a population of 15,909.
Molodechno
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Molodechno is a district centre in the Minsk oblast' in Belarus. The town has about 100.000 inhabitants.
Žodzina
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Zhodzina or Zhodino is a town in Minsk Region, in central Belarus, located 50 kilometres north-east of Minsk. The city covers an area of 19 square kilometres. In 2021, its population was 65,451. As of 2025, it has a population of 63,354.
Zaslaŭje
Zaslaŭje is a historic town in Minsk Oblast, Belarus. Its name derives from the name of prince Izyaslav of Polotsk.
Vileyka
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Vileyka or Vilyeyka is a town in Minsk Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Vileyka District. It is located on the Viliya River, 100 kilometres northwest of Minsk.
Valozhyn
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Valozhyn or Volozhin is a town in Minsk Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Valozhyn District. It is located 75 km northwest of the capital Minsk, on the Valozhynka River in the Neman River basin, and the beginning of the Naliboki forest.
Myadzyel
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Myadzyel is a town of 6,900 people in Minsk Oblast, Belarus, between the lakes Myastro and Batorino, within the borders of Narachansky National Park.
Narachansky National Park
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Narachansky National Park is a natural reserve in Belarus, almost completely in Minsk Oblast. The main attractions of the park are its lakes, the biggest of them being Narach and Svir. The town of Myadzyel is within the borders of the park.
Minsk Region
- Type: State with 1,430,000 residents
- Description: administrative division (voblasć) in Belarus
- Also known as: “Minsk”, “Minsk Oblast”, “Minsk region”, “Minskaja voblasć”, and “Minskaya Voblasts’”
- Neighbors: Brest Oblast, Gomel Oblast, Grodno Oblast, Minsk, Mogilev Oblast, and Vitebsk Oblast
- Categories: region of Belarus and locality
- Location: Belarus, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude of center
53.6099° or 53° 36′ 36″ northLongitude of center
27.591° or 27° 35′ 28″ eastPopulation
1,430,000Elevation
216 metres (709 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Minsk Region” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إقليم مينسك”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة مينسك”
- Armenian: “Մինսկի մարզ”
- Asturian: “Provincia de Minsk”
- Azerbaijani: “Minsk vilayəti”
- Basque: “Minskeko oblasta”
- Belarusian: “Менская вобласьць”
- Belarusian: “Мінская вобласць”
- Belarusian: “Мінская Вобласць”
- Belarusian: “Міншчына”
- Bengali: “মিন্সক অঞ্চল”
- Bosnian: “Minska oblast”
- Breton: “Rannvro Minsk”
- Bulgarian: “Минска област”
- Catalan: “província de Minsk”
- Catalan: “Província de Minsk”
- Cebuano: “Minskaja Voblasć”
- Chechen: “Минскан область”
- Chinese: “Minsk Chiu”
- Chinese: “明斯克州”
- Church Slavic: “Мѣньска ѡбласть”
- Cornish: “Ranndir Minsk”
- Crimean Tatar: “Minsk vilâyeti”
- Croatian: “Minska oblast”
- Czech: “Minská oblast”
- Danish: “Minsk voblast”
- Dutch: “Oblast Minsk”
- Eastern Mari: “Минск вел”
- Erzya: “Минской ёнкс”
- Esperanto: “Minska regiono”
- Estonian: “Minski oblast”
- Finnish: “Minskin alue”
- French: “Minsk”
- French: “voblast de Minsk”
- French: “Voblast de Minsk”
- Galician: “Rexión de Minsk”
- Georgian: “მინსკის ოლქი”
- German: “Bezirk Minsk-Land”
- German: “BY-MI”
- German: “Minskaja Woblasz”
- German: “Voblasc Minsk”
- German: “Vobłasć Minsk”
- German: “Woblast Minsk”
- Greek: “Βόμπλαστ του Μινσκ”
- Gujarati: “મિન્સ્ક પ્રદેશ”
- Hebrew: “מינסק”
- Hindi: “मिन्स्क क्षेत्र”
- Hungarian: “Minszki terület”
- Icelandic: “Minsk-fylki”
- Ido: “Provinco Minsk”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Minsk”
- Irish: “Réigiún Mhionsc”
- Italian: “Regione di Minsk”
- Italian: “Voblasc‘ di Minsk”
- Italian: “Voblast di Mensk”
- Italian: “Voblast di Minsk”
- Japanese: “ミンスク州”
- Kannada: “ಮಿನ್ಸ್ಕ್ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
- Kazakh: “Минск вобласцьі”
- Kazakh: “Минск облысы”
- Kazakh: “Минская область”
- Kazakh: “Мінская вобласць”
- Korean: “민스크주”
- Latin: “Regio Minscensis”
- Latvian: “Minskas apgabals”
- Lithuanian: “Minsko sr”
- Lithuanian: “Minsko sritis”
- Macedonian: “Минска област”
- Malay: “Minsk Region”
- Maltese: “Reġjun ta‘ Minsk”
- Marathi: “मिन्स्क प्रदेश”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Minsk Chiu”
- Moksha: “Минсконь аймак”
- Northern Frisian: “Minsk”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Minsk oblast”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Minsk voblasts”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Minskaja oblast”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Minskaja voblasts”
- Norwegian: “Minsk voblasts”
- Ossetian: “Минсчы облæст”
- Persian: “منطقه مینسک”
- Polish: “obwód miński”
- Polish: “Obwód miński”
- Portuguese: “Minsk”
- Portuguese: “Óblast de Minsk”
- Portuguese: “Voblast de Minsk”
- Romanian: “Minsk”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Minsk”
- Russian: “Minskaya Oblast’”
- Russian: “Минская область”
- Russian: “Минская Область”
- Russian: “Минщина”
- Rusyn: “Міньска область”
- Samogitian: “Minska srėtės”
- Scots: “Minsk Region”
- Serbian: “Минска област”
- Sinhala: “මින්ස්ක් කලාපය, බෙලරුස්”
- Sinhala: “මින්ස්ක් කලාපය”
- Slovak: “Minská oblasť”
- Slovenian: “BY-MI”
- Slovenian: “Minska oblast”
- Slovenian: “Minška oblast”
- Slovenian: “Minška voblast”
- Slovenian: “regija Minsk”
- Spanish: “Óblast de Minsk”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Minsk”
- Spanish: “Region de Minsk”
- Spanish: “Región de Minsk”
- Swedish: “Minsk oblast”
- Swedish: “Minsk voblast”
- Swedish: “Minsks voblast”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Минск”
- Tamil: “மின்ஸ்க் பகுதி”
- Tatar: “Минск өлкәсе”
- Telugu: “మిన్సెక్ ప్రాంతం”
- Thai: “แคว้นมินสค์”
- Thai: “มินสก์”
- Turkish: “Minsk Voblastı”
- Ukrainian: “Мінська область”
- Ukrainian: “Мінщина”
- Urdu: “منسک ریجن”
- Urdu: “منسک علاقہ”
- Uzbek: “Minsk viloyati”
- Vietnamese: “Khu vực Minsk”
- Vietnamese: “Minsk”
- Welsh: “Minsk Region”
- Western Panjabi: “منسک ووبلاست”
- Wu Chinese: “明斯克州”
- Yiddish: “מינסקער גובערניע”
- “Minska srėtės”
- “Minskaja voblasć”
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