According to a 1998 law of the

Republic of Belarus A republic () is a "state in which power rests with the people or their representatives; specifically a state without a monarchy" and also a "government, or system of government, of such a state." Previously, especially in the 17th and 18th c ...

,Закон Республики Беларусь от 5 мая 1998 г. № 154-З «Об административно-территориальном делении и порядке решения вопросов административно-территориального устройства Республики Беларусь»
there are three categories of urban-type settlements in Belarus: *Urban settlements ( Belarusian: ,

Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...

: ): with population over 2,000, industrial enterprises and developed residential infrastructure *Resort settlements ( Belarusian: ,

: ,

resort town A resort town, often called a resort city or resort destination, is an urban area where tourism or vacationing is the primary component of the local culture and economy. A typical resort town has one or more actual resorts in the surrounding ...

s): with population of at least 2,000, sanatoriums, resorts or other health recuperation establishments, and developed residential infrastructure *Worker settlements ( Belarusian: ,

: ): with population at least 500, servicing industrial enterprises, construction sites, railroad stations, electric stations, or other industrial objects. The notion of

urban-type settlement Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...

is inherited from the times of

Belarusian SSR The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR, or Byelorussian SSR; be, Беларуская Савецкая Сацыялістычная Рэспубліка, Bielaruskaja Savieckaja Sacyjalistyčnaja Respublika; russian: Белор� ...

within the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

. Before the Soviet times, many modern urban settlements in Belarus were classified as ('

market town A market town is a settlement most common in Europe that obtained by custom or royal charter, in the Middle Ages, a market right, which allowed it to host a regular market; this distinguished it from a village or city. In Britain, small rural ...

').

List of urban-type settlements

As of October 14, 2009 (

census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses incl ...

), there were 94 urban-type settlements, including 83 urban settlements, one resort settlement, and ten worker settlements.Перепись населения Республики Беларусь. Численность населения областей и районов
Брестская областьВитебская областьГомельская областьГродненская областьгород МинскМинская областьМогилёвская область
As of January 1, 2016, there were already 90 urban-type settlements, including 81 urban settlements, one resort settlement and eight worker settlements.Численность населения на 1 января 2016 г. и среднегодовая численность населения за 2015 год по Республике Беларусь в разрезе областей, районов, городов, поселков городского типа.

External links

The Roman alphabet transliteration of Belarusian geographical names

References

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