The republic of Belarus from the perspective of administration and regional geography

Abstract

Belarus is a leading country that is least known, least debated and scientifically least investigated. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to promote the republic of Belarus to the Turkish audience and help people broaden their body of knowledge about this country. Geographical, historical, geopolitical, socio-economic and demographic findings and interpretation constitute the multi-level fields of debate of this Belarus-oriented study. In this study, not only were the historical and current administrative structure of Belarus and the resulting consequences examined, but the comparative geographical, socio-economic and demographic analyses of the provinces (oblats) were carried out as well. It emerged in this study that there were some differences amongst the provinces (oblats) in terms of industrial production, agricultural production, trade potential, settlement and demographic characteristics that were based on various factors.