Brest Region

Brest Region, also called Brest Oblast or Brest Voblasts, is one of the six regions of Belarus, lying in the southwest of the country. Its administrative centre is the city of Brest, and other major cities include Baranavichy and Pinsk. It borders the Podlasie and Lublin voivodeships of Poland to the west, the Volyn and Rivne oblasts of Ukraine to the south, the Grodno and Minsk regions to the north and the Gomel region to the east. The region covers 32,800 square kilometres, about 15.7 percent of Belarus, and had a population of 1,308,569 in 2024. It belongs to the historic area of Polesia, was part of the Second Polish Republic from 1921 to 1939, and was formed in its present form in 1939 after the reunification of Western Belarus with the Byelorussian SSR. It now comprises 16 districts and contains Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park.