Baranavichy (/bəˈrɑːnəvɪtʃi/ bə-RAH-nə-vitch-ee; Belarusian: Баранавічы, IPA: [baˈranavʲitʂɨ] ⓘ; Russian: Барановичи, romanized: Baranovichi [bɐˈranəvʲɪtɕɪ]; Yiddish: באַראַנאָוויטש; Polish: Baranowicze) is a city in Brest Region, western Belarus.

Baranavichy is located on flat terrain where the height difference does not exceed 20 m (from 180 to 200 m above sea level).

The city of Baranavichy is characterized by a favourable geographical position and is a major junction of the most important railways and highways.

There is a close location to the main gas pipeline, a developed system of energy and water supply, and a favourable climate.

At the beginning of 2010, Baranavichy had 21 sister cities, including Russian Mytishchi (Moscow Oblast), Vasileostrovsky district of St. Petersburg, Finnish Heinola, Austrian Stockerau, Polish Biala Podlaska, Gdynia, Sulentsin povet, Chinese Chibi, Italian Ferrara, Latvian Jelgava, Ukrainian Poltava, Novovolynsk and others.

The village was administratively part of the Nowogródek Voivodeship until the Third Partition of Poland (1795) when it was annexed by Imperial Russia.

The town's history began on 17 (29) November 1871, the beginning of construction of a movement to the new section of the Smolensk-Brest.

The impetus for more intensive settlement of the areas adjacent to the station from the south was the 27 May 1884 decision by the governor of Minsk to build a town, Rozvadovo, on the lands of the landlord, Rozwadowski.

The plans approved by Emperor Alexander III assumed that there would also be one railway linking Vilnius, Luninets, Pinsk, and Rovno.

It was developed on the land owned by peasants of the villages near the new station (Svetilovichi, Gierow and Uznogi).

More convenient than the landlords' land, its lease terms and proximity to administrative agencies contributed to the rapid growth of this settlement.

At the beginning of World War I, Baranavichy was the location for the Stavka, the headquarters of the Russian General Staff, until the Great Retreat.

On 1 August 1919, it received city rights and became a powiat centre in the Polish Nowogródek Voivodeship.

In 1930, a monument to Hungarian Lieutenant colonel Artur Buol, a hero of Polish fights in the Polish–Soviet War, was unveiled in Baranowicze.

From 4 March to 14 December 1942, the entire Jewish population of the ghetto was sent to various extermination camps and killed in gas chambers.

[citation needed] As a fairly young city, Baranavichy does not have many cultural heritage monuments.