This is a list of cities and towns in Belarus.
Neither the Belarusian nor the Russian language makes a distinction between "city" and "town" as English does; the word horad (Belarusian: горад [ˈɣorat] ⓘ) or gorod (Russian: город [ˈɡorət] ⓘ) is used for both.
Belarusian legislation uses a three-level hierarchy of town classifications.
[1] According to the Law under May 5, 1998, the categories of the most developed urban localities in Belarus are as follows: This division was inherited by the contemporary Republic of Belarus from the Byelorussian SSR and introduced in 1938.
[2] As of 2020, 115 settlements had the status of a city/town.