Is there much difference between eastern Poles and Belarusians?

[Slavic Italian]

I've been told no.

[Smitty]

Is there much difference between Eastern Poles and Western Poles?

[Slavic Italian]

Is there much difference between Eastern Poles and Western Poles?

West are more Germanic while East more eastern shifted.

[Slavic Italian]

Is there much difference between Eastern Poles and Western Poles?

West are more Germanic while East more eastern shifted.

[Figaro]

Not much, at least N.East Poles to Belarusians. Won’t southeast and Podparkie poles be more like Ukrainians? The latter have some Balkan-like input. Not so much of that in NE Poles.

[Peterski]

It depends:

North-Eastern Poles are very similar to Belarusians.

South-Eastern Poles are not similar to Belarusians.

[Arūnas]

yes, the dialect of people from Białystok & nearby sounds alien to Belorusian language

[Satem]

Yes it is, unless we talk about NW Belarus which is full with Poles and people of Polish ancestry

[Roy]

Is there much difference between Eastern Poles and Western Poles?

Yes, there is some difference, not a huge one but there is - like smaller Baltic admixture / component on average in Western Poles.

[Sandis]

Eastern Poles are closer to Belarusians than Western Poles, but there are differences.
Eastern Poles have more similiar ydna haplogroup distribution - higher hg N frequency and lower hg R1b frequency than Western average.
Poles from Podlasie have 14 pct hg N, and it is even higher than Belarusian average (9 pct). Poles from Holy Cross also have 9 pct hg N, then comes Warmia-Mazuria and Western Pomeriania with 7, but Poles from Lodz and Greater Poland have only 2 pct.
In Poland lowest hg R1b frequency have Poles from Lower Silesia (8 pct), Lublin (9 pct) and Podlasie (9 pct). Belarusians have 6 pct, but Poles from Lodz and Silesia 18 pct.

[Peterski]

Here is GEDmatch kit of someone who belongs to the ethnic Belarusian minority in Poland:

https://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?349215-Belarusian-Minority-in-NE-Poland