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Belarus UNESCO world heritage sites

Brestskaya region [capital = Brest]

Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park in Kamianiuki at N52 43 39 E23 58 52
The iconic symbol of the property is the European Bison: approximately 900 individuals in the whole property which make almost 25% of the total world's population and over 30% of free-living animals.

Struve Geodetic Arc in Liaskavicy + Scakock + Osovnitsa
The Struve Arc is a chain of survey triangulations stretching from Hammerfest in Norway to the Black Sea, through 10 countries and over 2,820 km. These are points of a survey, carried out between 1816 and 1855 by the astronomer Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve, which represented the first accurate measuring of a long segment of a meridian. This helped to establish the exact size and shape of the planet and marked an important step in the development of earth sciences and topographic mapping. It is an extraordinary example of scientific collaboration among scientists from different countries, and of collaboration between monarchs for a scientific cause.

Grodno region [capital = Grodno]

Struve Geodetic Arc in Lopaty + Ciupiski
See above.

Castle Complex in Mir at Krasnoarmeyskaya Ulitsa 2
The construction of this castle began at the end of the 15th century, in Gothic style. It was subsequently extended and reconstructed, first in the Renaissance and then in the Baroque style. After being abandoned for nearly a century and suffering severe damage during the Napoleonic period, the castle was restored at the end of the 19th century, with the addition of a number of other elements and the landscaping of the surrounding area as a park.

Minskaya region [capital = Minsk]

Cultural Complex of the Radziwill Family in Nesvizh at Leninskaya 19
The castle has ten interconnected buildings, which developed as an architectural whole around a six-sided courtyard. The palaces and church became important prototypes marking the development of architecture throughout Central Europe and Russia.