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Vitebsk or Vitsyebsk (Belarusian: Віцебск, romanized: Vitsyebsk, [a] IPA: [ˈvʲitsʲepsk]; Russian: Витебск, IPA: [ˈvʲitʲɪpsk]; Yiddish: וויטעבסק) is a city in northern Belarus. [2] It serves as the administrative center of Vitebsk Region and Vitebsk District, though it is administratively separated from the district. [1]
Its administrative center is Vitebsk. It is located in the north of the country, and borders on Russia. As of 2019 the region had a population of 1,135,731 [4] and the lowest population-density for any region in Belarus: 30.6 p/km². Important cities within the region include Vitebsk, Orsha, Polotsk, and Novopolotsk.
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Vitsyebsk, city and administrative centre of Vitsyebsk oblast (region), northeastern Belarus. It lies along the Western Dvina River at the latter’s confluence with the Luchesa River. Vitsyebsk, first mentioned in 1021, was a major fortress and trading centre and had a stormy history.
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The biosphere reserve occupies over 80,000 hectares and comprises various types of forests, swamps, flood meadows, lakes and rivers. It is home to over 2,000 varieties of plants (78 in the Red Book of Belarus), dozens of varieties of mammals and hundreds of varieties of birds.
Jan 1, 2024 · The Vitebsk region of Belarus borders Russia, Lithuania and Latvia. The region is known as the Belarusian land of lakes ( Belaruskaye Paazerye), and has more than 2800 lakes and 500 rivers . More than a third of the region is forest .
