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- subdivision of former Soviet republic: a subdivision of a republic of the former Soviet Union

Minsk Oblast (RIA-NOVOSTI/SOVFOTO-EASTFOTO)

Minsk, city in northern Belarus, capital of Belarus, on the Svisloch’ River. Minsk is the country’s largest city, the administrative center of Minsk...

Toshkent Oblast

Toshkent Oblast (Hutchison Library)

Toshkent, city in eastern Uzbekistan, capital of the country and of Toshkent Wiloyat (region). Located in an oasis near the Chirchiq River in a...

Sakhalin Oblast

Sakhalin Oblast (Mike Yamashita/Woodfin Camp and Associates, Inc.)

Kuril Islands (Japanese Chishima-rettō, Russian Kuril'skiye Ostrova, from the word kurit,”to smoke”), chain of 56 large and small volcanic islands...

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Map of Homyel’

Map of Hrodna Oblast

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