All administrative divisions of Belarus april 2025

Rural councils of Belarus (, , ''

selsoviet A selsoviet (; , ; ) is the shortened name for Selsky soviet, i.e., rural council (; ; ). It has three closely related meanings: *The administration (''soviet (council), soviet'') of a certain rural area. *The territorial subdivision administered ...

s'') are the lowest-level rural territorial units of the country. They are subordinated to

districts of Belarus A district or raion (, , ''rayony''; , , ''rajony'')According to thInstruction on Latin Transliteration of Geographical Names of the Republic of Belarus, Decree of the State Committee on Land Resources, Surveying and Cartography of the Republic ...

. If a rural council includes agrotowns, then one of them is the

administrative center An administrative centre is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune, is located. In countries with French as the administrative language, such as Belgiu ...

of the rural council, with some exceptions. The system was introduced in 1924, when the whole

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replaced its administrative division inherited from the

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. According to the 2009 Belarusian census, the numbers of rural councils were: * Brest region: 222 * Gomel region: 259 * Grodno region: 178 * Minsk region: 294Populated places of Minsk region, 2009
/ref> * Mogilev region: 192 * Vitebsk region: 200 According to the

2019 Belarusian census The Belarus Census of 2019 is the third census in Belarus after it became an independent state after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The census was carried out during October 4–30, 2019. It is the first census in the country that incorporated ...

, the numbers of rural councils were: * Brest region: 195 * Gomel region: 242 * Grodno region: 155 * Minsk region: 216Populated places of Minsk region, 2019
/ref> * Mogilev region: 152 * Vitebsk region: 191http://pop-stat.mashke.org/belarus-census-2019/viciebskaja.htm

References

{{Minsk District Third-level administrative divisions by country Subdivisions of Belarus