World Atlas 2010 (4th edition)

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Pripet

Marshes

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MINSK

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Babruysk

Barysaw

Brest

Homyel’

Hrodna

Mahilyow

Orsha

Pinsk

Vitsyebsk

Baranavichy

Hlybokaye

Horki

Kalinkavichy

Kobryn

Krychaw

Luninyets

Lyepyel’

Polatsk

Salihorsk

Slonim

Slutsk

Svyetlahorsk

Vawkavysk

Zhlobin

Zhodzina

Alytus

Druskininkai

Maladzyechna

Mazyr

Rechytsa

Covering an area of approximately34,000 sq miles (88,000 sq km),Pripet Marshes are the largest areaof marshland in Europe.

Formed in 1945 from the northern half ofGerman East Prussia, and ceded to Russiaunder the Potsdam agreement, Kaliningradoblast became a true enclave, completelyseparated from the rest of Russia, whenLithuania and Belarus achieved theirindependence in 1991.

Following the breakup of the Soviet Union,the Commonwealth of Independent Stateswas established on December 8, 1991,by a treaty signed at Minsk, with the intentof coordinating the foreign policies of thenewly independent former Soviet republics.

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