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Gomel Region


Gomel Region or Gomel Oblast or Homyel Voblasts (Belarusian: Го́мельская во́бласць, Homielskaja vobłasć, Russian: Гомельская область, Gomelskaya oblast) is one of the regions of Belarus. Its administrative center is Gomel.
The total area of the region is 40,400 square kilometres (15,600 sq mi), the population in 2011 stood at 1,435,000 with the number of inhabitants per km2 at 36.Important cities within the region include: Gomel, Mazyr, Zhlobin, Svietlahorsk, Rechytsa, Kalinkavichy, Rahachow and Dobrush.
Both the Gomel Region and the Mogilev Region suffered severely from the Chernobyl disaster. The Gomel Province borders the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in places, and parts of it have been designated as mandatory or voluntary resettlement areas as a result of the radioactive contamination.


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