Belarus

The country calling code for Belarus is +375. Country calling codes identify the destination country when placing an international call. The international access prefix used to leave your originating country varies by telephone network. On mobile phones, the + symbol is generally used instead. After the country code, dial the local Belarus number, dropping any leading zero used for domestic dialling.

Belarus is assigned BY as its ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and BLR as its alpha-3 code. Alpha-2 codes are the two-letter codes used in web addresses, currency pairs and shipping forms. Alpha-3 codes are the three-letter codes used in banking, aviation and international standards work. The internet country code top-level domain for Belarus is .by. ISO country codes are standardized identifiers, but they can change when countries or territories undergo changes in international status or classification.

The official currency of Belarus is the New Belarusian ruble, Old Belarusian ruble, with the ISO 4217 code BYN, BYR and the symbol Br, Br. Prices, salaries and official accounts inside Belarus are quoted in BYN, BYR. Exchange rates move daily, so check a live rate before converting rather than relying on a figure you saw last week.

The primary time zone for Belarus is +03:00, currently UTC+03:00. The clock reads from your own device, so it follows daylight saving rather than showing a fixed offset.

The capital of Belarus is Minsk. Belarus sits in Europe, specifically the Eastern Europe subregion. Its approximate centre point is 53.00000000, 28.00000000. Traffic in Belarus drives on the right. Languages recorded for Belarus: Belarusian, Russian.

Belarus shares a land border with 5 countries: Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russian Federation and Ukraine. Land borders are not the same as nearest countries: a country across a narrow strait can be closer than one you share a fence with. The nearby page ranks countries by straight-line distance instead.