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Includes online maps, links to map collections, flags, climate, weather, natural resources. For information about maps and other geographical resources at the Library of Congress, consult its Geography and Map Reading Room site.
General Resources
Belarus (http://www.indexmundi.com/zp/bo/)
Place name index, from Index Mundi.
Directory of Cities, Towns,
and Regions in Belarus (http://www.fallingrain.com/world/BO/)
Information for more than 20,000 cities and towns in Belarus--latitude and longitute, elevation, and population (estimate), as well as airports and aviation waypoints. From Falling Rain Genomics.
JewishGen ShtetlSeeker.
Town Search (http://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/)
Find any town or city in Eastern Europe. At the JewishGen site.
National Geographic (http://www.nationalgeographic.com)
Search on Belarus.
Maps
University of Texas
at Austin. Perry-Castaneda Map Collection. Belarus Maps (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/belarus.html)
Thematic country and city maps of Belarus.
Weather
Current Weather Conditions
in Belarus (http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/BY%5Fcc.html)
Select from six locations in Belarus for most recently observed weather conditions. From National Weather Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce.
Weather
Underground: Belarus (http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=Belarus)
Weather by city; arranged alphabetically.
Environment
EarthTrends (http://earthtrends.wri.org)
Searchable environmental information portal for researching global topics such as water resources, climate and atmosphere, population and health, energy resources, and agriculture and food. Search the database, display data tables, view country profiles, or select maps with global, regional, and country-level environmental information. From the World Resources Institute.
Environment News Service (http://ens-news.com)
ENS provides full-text, keyword-searchable articles on environmental news worldwide.
USAID
Europe and Eurasia: Belarus (http://www.usaid.gov/locations/europe%5Feurasia/countries/by/)
USAID country resource page on Belarus.
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