This article is about transport in Belarus

Belarus

Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...

. For Soviet transportation, see Transport in the Soviet Union

Transport in the Soviet Union

Transport in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was an important part of the nation's economy. The economic centralisation of the late 1920s and 1930s led to the development of infrastructure at a massive scale and rapid pace. Before the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991, there were a wide...

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Railways

Rail transport in Belarus

Rail transport in Belarus

Rail transport in Belarus is owned by the national rail company BŽD / BČ . The railway network consists of 5,512 km, its gauge is 1,520 mm and 874 km are electrified.-History:...

 is operated by Belarusskaya Chyhunka

total:
5,512 km

country comparison to the world: 32

broad gauge:
5,497 km of gauge (874 km electrified) (2006)

• City with underground
  Rapid transit
  A rapid transit, underground, subway, elevated railway, metro or metropolitan railway system is an electric passenger railway in an urban area with a high capacity and frequency, and grade separation from other traffic. Rapid transit systems are typically located either in underground tunnels or on...
  
   railway system: Minsk
  Minsk
  - Ecological situation :The ecological situation is monitored by Republican Center of Radioactive and Environmental Control .During 2003–2008 the overall weight of contaminants increased from 186,000 to 247,400 tons. The change of gas as industrial fuel to mazut for financial reasons has worsened...
  
  , see Minsk Metro
  Minsk Metro
  The Minsk Metro is a rapid-transit system that serves Minsk, the capital of Belarus. Opened in 1984, it presently consists of 2 lines and 25 stations totaling 30.3 kilometres...
  
  
• For tramway systems: see List of town tramway systems in Belarus

Highways

total:
93,055 km

paved:
93,055 km (2003)

Waterways

2,500 km (use limited by location on perimeter of country and by shallowness) (2003)

country comparison to the world: 37

Airports

65 (2008):

country comparison to the world: 76

• Minsk International Airport
  Minsk International Airport
  thumb|300pix|Minsk National Airport location within the limits of Kastrychnitski District of MinskMinsk National Airport , , former name is Minsk-2, is the main international airport in Belarus, located 42 km to the east of the capital Minsk, geographically lying in the territory of...
  
  
• Minsk-1
  Minsk-1
  Minsk-1 Airport is an airport located within the city limits of Minsk, Belarus, just a few kilometres south from the centre. It takes about 10 minutes by car or bus to reach the airport from the city centre. It has one 2000 m x 60 m runway, enabling aircraft of maximum weight of 63 tons to...
  
  
• Gomel Airport
  Gomel Airport
  Gomel Airport is an airport located 3 km north-east from Gomel, the second-largest city in Belarus. It was opened in 1968.-Servicing Airlines:...
  
  

Airports - with paved runways

total:
35

over 3,047 m:
2

2,438 to 3,047 m:
22

1,524 to 2,437 m:
4

914 to 1,524:
1

under 914 m:
6 (2008)

Airports - with unpaved runways

total:
30

2,438 to 3,047 m:
1

1,524 to 2,437 m:
1

914 to 1,523 m:
2

under 914 m:
26 (2008)

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