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 | | On either side of the ridge lie the lowlands; to the south is the Central Berezina Plain, which is drained by the River Pripyat and its tributaries, and to the north the Polatsk Lowland, with the Neman Lowland east of Hrodna. |
 | | The Belavezhskaya Forest Nature Reserve, north of Brest, in south-west Belarus, is the largest primeval forest in Europe, extending across the Polish border with a substantial proportion of its area lying in Belarus. |
 | | Notable rivers are the Daugava in the north, the Neman in the west, and the Dnepr and its tributaries—the Pripyat, Beregina, and Sozh rivers—in the east, central, and southern portions of the country. |
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