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(where , indicates the decimal separator and a space the thousands separator)

   Note: This section last updated 29th March 2021

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Most of the population speak Belorussian . There are large minorities of people speaking languages from other parts of the former Soviet Union.

   Note: This section last updated 6th January 2016

Belarussian names are formed by a given name followed by the patronymic, which shows filiation to the father, followed by the surname:

   Ivan Ivanovitch Tolstoy

The patronymic is formed by adding –ovitch, -evich or -ich (“son of”) or -ovna, -ivna, -evna, -ichna or -inichna (“daughter of”) to the given name of the father.

These company legal forms are commonly found in Belarus:

   ААТ (Адкрытае акцыянернае таварыства)(public limited company)
   ЗАТ (Закрытае ацыянернае таварыства)(public limited company)
   ІП (індывідуальны прадпрымальнік) (sole proprietorship)
   ПУП (Прыватнае унітарнае прадпрыемства) (private unitary enterprise)
   ТАА (Таварыства з абмежаванай адказнасцю)(limited company)

   Comprehensive tables of these strings can be acquired – see http:www.grcdi.nl/addresses.htm 

   Note: This section last updated 9th August 2018

To aid mail sorting, Belarus has changed its address format to a more standard "Western" pattern. The format is:

   Recipient name
   Thoroughfare[, ]building number{[, ]Apartment number
   {Rural Settlement}
   postal code[ ]PLACE NAME
   {District}
   {Region}

For example:

Smaller villages, those without post offices, may not have names streets, and in those cases the village is used instead of a thoroughfare name and the name after the postal code is that of the city with the delivering post office. If the village does have street names, the name of the village is added above the postal code line.

The previous address format, where the address line order is opposite to that used in Western Europe, may continue to be found:

Common strings and abbreviations found in addresses include:

	Translation
Doma, d.	Building number
Gorod, g.	City
Korpus, k.	Building
Kvartira, kv.	Door, apartment
Oblast, Obl.	Oblast
prospekt, pr-t	Avenue
Rayon, r-na	Rayon
ulica, ul.	Street

   A table containing information about the relevant position of elements within address blocks can be acquired 

   Note: This section last updated 9th August 2018

This is written as: Абонентский ящик (Abonentskiy Yashchik, a/ya.).

Postal codes consist of a block of 6 digits. The code used is that in use since before independence from the Soviet Union. The first three digits indicate the region, the last three the post office. Numbers range between 200 and 247.

   Metadata containing postal code formatting rules, exceptions and regular expressions can be acquired 

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Belarus - Postal code map

   Note: This section last updated 6th April 2015

Refer to Exonyms in Belarus for full lists of place names in Belarus in other languages.

   Alternate place name forms/postal code tables can be acquired at http:www.grcdi.nl/settlements.htm 

   Other language place name data can be acquired at http://www.grcdi.nl/otherlanguageplace.htm 

   Note: This section last updated 13th May 2020

Belarus has 6 voblastsi (singular - voblasts’) and one municipality (harady, singular - horad, shown in the list below with an asterisk):

Region	Postal code range
Brestskaya	224-225
Homyel’skaya	246-247
Horad Minsk *	200, 220
Hrodzyenskaya	230-231
Mahilyowskaya	212-213
Minskaya	222-223
Vitsyebskaya	210-211

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Belarussian telephone numbers, when called from abroad, have 9 or 10 digits. Mobile numbers commence with 25, 29, 33 or 44.