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Coat of arms of the city of Minsk |
The city of Minsk is the capital of the Republic of Belarus and the administrative center of the Minsk region and the Minsk region, which are not part of it since it is an independent administrative-territorial unit with a special (capital) status.
The largest transport hub, the political, economic, cultural, and scientific center of the country.
The tenth-largest city (without suburbs) in Europe, and the fifth in the former USSR after - Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kyiv, Tashkent.