Resources and Land Use
- Natural resources
- Forests, peat deposits, small quantities of oil and natural gas, granite, dolomitic limestone, marl, chalk, sand, gravel, clay
- Land use
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- Arable land: 0.5%
- Permanent crops: 0.5%
- Other: 99% (2005)
- Irrigated land
- 1,310 km² (2003)
- Total renewable water resources
- 58 km3 (1997)
- Freshwater withdrawal (domestic/industrial/agricultural)
- Total: 2.79 km3/yr (23%/47%/30%)
- Per capita: 286 m3/yr (2000)
- Water resources
- About 42 rivers and streams, with the total length of 91,000 km, and about 11,000 lakes, including 470 lakes with the area exceeding 0.5 km² each. Narach is the largest lake (79.2 km², the deepest point about 25 m). Significant amounts of swampy area, notably in the Polesie region.
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