Minsk Region

Country: Belarus

Area: approximately 40,200 sq km

Population: approximately 1.4 million

Sister-city relations with Zhejiang established May 10, 2015

Minsk Region, located in the center of Belarus, makes up 19.4 percent of country's land area and 14.85 percent of its population.

Minsk Region is Belarus' main industrial zone. Its major industrial sectors include chemicals, petroleum, machinery manufacturing, metal processing, food processing, and wood processing.

The China-Belarus Industrial Park in Minsk is the largest cooperation project between the two countries.