Belarus map quiz
Explore cities and landmarks of Belarus!
Quizzes in this pack
Belarus: cities, landmarks.
| Cities | 8 questions |
| Landmarks | 8 questions |
Sample questions
- The capital and largest city, rebuilt in grand Soviet style after WWII
- Answer: Minsk
- Second-largest city, in the southeast near the Ukrainian border
- Answer: Gomel
- Eastern city on the Dnieper river, near the Russian border
- Answer: Mogilev
- Northern city on the Dvina, birthplace of the painter Marc Chagall
- Answer: Vitebsk
- Western city on the Neman river, near Poland and Lithuania, two royal castles
- Answer: Grodno
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Mir Castle
Mir, Grodno Region
Mir Castle was begun around 1500 and grew into a red-brick castle with five towers, mixing Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque styles. It belonged to the powerful Radziwiłł family for centuries, was badly damaged in the wars of the 1800s and 1900s, and has been carefully restored.
- Built
- From about 1500
Nesvizh Castle
Nesvizh, Minsk Region
Nesvizh Castle was the main seat of the Radziwiłł family from the 1500s, a palace ringed by moats and ponds and surrounded by large landscape parks. In its church lie dozens of Radziwiłłs, in one of the largest family crypts in Europe.
- Built
- From 1583
- Did you know?
- A ghost, the Black Lady, is said to walk its halls
Białowieża Forest
Belarus–Poland border
Białowieża Forest, on the border between Belarus and Poland, is one of the last parts of the ancient forest that once covered the European lowlands. The European bison lives here, the heaviest land animal in Europe, brought back after it died out in the wild in 1919.
- Did you know?
- In 1991 the leaders of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus signed the end of the Soviet Union at a lodge in the forest
Pripyat Marshes
Polesia, southern Belarus
The Pripyat Marshes, or Polesia, are one of the largest wetlands in Europe, stretching along the river Pripyat across southern Belarus and into Ukraine. In the spring floods the river spreads out over meadows and forests, and many birds come here to breed.
- Did you know?
- Turov, on the river, is one of the oldest towns in Belarus, first mentioned in 980
Braslav Lakes
Vitebsk Region
The Braslav Lakes are a national park of more than 30 glacial lakes among wooded hills in the north-west of Belarus, near the borders with Lithuania and Latvia. The largest, Drivyaty, has islands, and the view from Mayak Hill takes in many of the lakes at once.
- How many
- Over 30 lakes
- Opened
- National park in 1995
National Library
Minsk
The National Library of Belarus in Minsk, opened in 2006, is shaped like a giant diamond, a figure with 26 faces, about 72 metres tall. At night thousands of coloured LEDs make its glass walls glow, and there is a viewing deck at the top.
- Height
- About 72 m
- Opened
- 2006
How it works
Pick a quiz, then find, name or choose your answer on the 3D globe. A round has 10 questions by default, or more, up to the whole quiz. Each round picks what you need most: questions due again, new ones and the places you tend to mix up. In a short round, the questions you miss are asked once more at the end. Spaced repetition then brings them back on later days until you know them.
Every round also fills your mastery badges for the continent or country, the topic and the whole world: bronze at 50%, silver at 80% and gold at 100%.
