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In 2009, Ukrainians made up 1.7% of the total population of
Belarus, with 158,723 people. The population is primarily located in southern Belarus, and concentrated particularly in Brest Region, but substantial populations exist in all regions of the country. The region with the lowest Ukrainian
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Often, ethnic
Ukrainians living in the territory of modern-day Belarus are singled out as a separate group. However, due to the cultural proximity and similarity of Belarusians and Ukrainians, difficulties arise in drawing ethnic boundaries between the two.
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The majority of
Ukrainians living in Belarus today are descendants of migrants from Ukraine, occurring due to the fact that Ukraine and Belarus were for centuries part of the same state. It is also known that many
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For many years, Belarusians and
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Belarusian population; in the 1897 census, there were 362,800 Ukrainians in
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Dnieper region in the 17th century. The last significant wave of immigrants from Ukraine arrived in Belarus during the
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Christianity) and under the common name of Ruthenians,
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16:Ethnic group in Belarus
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21:Belarusians in Ukraine
698:bielaruskija ŭkraincy
449:Other/no information
283:Ukrainian population
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119:Ukrainians in Belarus
101:Related ethnic groups
32:Ukrainians in Belarus
780:Ethnology of Belarus
711:белорусские украинцы
686:biloruski ukrayintsi
648:, chairwoman of the
206:Alexander Lukashenko
160:Zaporozhian Cossacks
812:. 28 January 1897.
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694:беларускія ўкраінцы
682:білоруські українці
622:Svetlana Alexievich
423:Belarusian language
38:Білоруські українці
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863:Ukrainian diaspora
634:Vassili Nesterenko
407:Ukrainian language
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690:Belarusian
435:Belarusian
242:Population
131:Kamieniets
107:Ukrainians
60:Belarusian
1077:Hong Kong
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999:Argentina
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678:Ukrainian
445:Ukrainian
260:Kobrinsky
232:Ukrainian
203:President
183:Poleshuks
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68:Ukrainian
54:Languages
1126:Category
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992:Americas
964:Slovakia
937:Portugal
820:19 March
814:Archived
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755:19 March
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401:Language
179:Tutejszy
143:Zhabinka
78:Religion
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1041:Uruguay
942:Romania
927:Moldova
912:Hungary
907:Germany
897:Finland
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707:Russian
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550:Mogilev
440:Russian
431:Region
388:158,723
374:14,557
370:Vitebsk
361:13,110
357:Mogilev
348:27,362
335:17,745
322:14,983
309:30,920
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280:Region
149:History
123:Belarus
64:Russian
1082:Jordan
1026:Mexico
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541:23.8%
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497:11.2%
493:Grodno
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481:62.5%
465:39.3%
462:51.5%
377:1.18%
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141:, and
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665:Notes
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588:Total
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478:9.1%
474:Gomel
468:1.3%
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383:Total
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