8 November, Minsk /BELTA correspondent/. The town of Disna in the Miory District of the Vitebsk Region is the smallest town in Belarus by population, BELTA was informed by the National Statistical Committee. According to the 2009 population census, Disna was inhabited by 1,973 people, including 897 men and 1,076 women. Overall, the country is characterised by a high level of urbanisation (it is on par with European countries). Town dwellers constitute 74.3% of the total population of the country. Thus, three out of every four residents of Belarus are town dwellers. The urban population is 7,065,000 people. As of 14 October 2009, the urban population was 7,064,500 people. Over the decade since the previous census, the number of town dwellers has increased by 103,000 people. Moreover, the proportion of urban residents has grown in every region of Belarus. The most urbanised region is the Mogilev Region (the proportion of town dwellers in the total population of the region was 75.8%). The Vitebsk and Gomel Regions have 72.9% each, Grodno Region - 69%, Brest Region - 65.6%, Minsk Region - 55.4%. According to Belstat, the growth in the urban population has been accompanied by a concentration of residents in the capital and regional centres. If in 1999, 49% of all town dwellers in the country lived in these cities, then in 2009 - 52%. The absolute increase in the population of regional centres and Minsk over the ten-year period amounted to 225,000 people. The urban population resides in 112 cities and 94 urban-type settlements. Over the decade following the 1999 census, the total number of cities increased by 8, while the number of urban-type settlements decreased by 14. At the time of the census, the population exceeded 50,000 people in 23 cities in Belarus, of which 13 had a population of over 100,000. Among the ten cities with a population between 50,000 and 100,000 people are Novopolotsk (98.1 thousand), Lida (97.6 thousand), Molodechno (94.3 thousand), Polotsk (82.5 thousand), Zhlobin (75.9 thousand), Svetlogorsk (70 thousand), Rechitsa (64.7 thousand), Zhodino (61.7 thousand), Slutsk (61.4 thousand), and Kobrin (51.2 thousand). Moreover, over the decade between censuses, the population increased in only three cities from this list (Zhlobin, Zhodino, and Kobrin), in Polotsk it remained at the 1999 level, and in the others it decreased. For this reason, incidentally, Novopolotsk and Lida lost their former status as cities with a population of over 100,000.