The following is the list of cities in Belarus. Neither Belarusian nor Russian have equivalent words to English "city" and "town". The word horad (Belarusian: горад, Russian: город) is used for both. But Belarusian legislature provides the three-level hierarchy.
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 BSSR and introduced in 1938.
At the beginning of 2010 112 settlements had the status of a city/town. Among them: