Kiev Oblast
Categories: Ukraine geography stubs | Subdivisions of Ukraine
| Kiev Oblast' Київська область | |
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| Image:Map of Ukraine political simple Oblast Kiew.png | |
| Image:Kiev oblast detail map.png | |
| Population Total (2004) Density Urban | 1,789,259 (excluding Kiev) 64/km² 58.6% |
| Area | 28,100 km² |
| Raions | 25 |
| Cities | 25 |
| City districts | n/a |
| Urban localities | 30 |
| Villages | 1,129 |
Kiev Oblast (Ukrainian: Київська область, Kyivs’ka oblast’ or Київщина, Kyivshchynais an oblast (province) in central Ukraine. Its capital is Kiev (Kyiv). Despite hosting governing bodies of the oblast, Kiev itself is independent from surrounding oblast' (see Subdivisions of Ukraine).
Geographically, oblast is divided into two almost equal parts by the Dnieper River flowing southwards.
The north-western end of the province is a part of the Chornobyl' zone. The largest city within zone is Pryp'yat (now a ghost town).
The area of the region is 28,100 km². Its population, excluding Kiev itself, (as of 2004-05-01) is 1.8 million.
Important cities include:
- Bila Tserkva
- Brovary
- Boryspil'
- Irpin'-Kotsiubyns'ke-Bucha-Vorzel' (these neighboring towns are practically merged into conurbation)
- Fastiv
- Vasyl'kiv
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| Subdivisions of Ukraine | Image:Ukraine flag large.png | ||
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| oblasts: | Cherkasy | Chernihiv | Chernivtsi | Dnipropetrovsk | Donetsk | Ivano-Frankivsk | Kharkiv | Kherson | Khmelnytskyi | Kirovohrad | Kiev | Luhansk | Lviv | Mykolaiv | Odessa | Poltava | Rivne | Sumy | Ternopil | Vinnytsia | Volyn | Zakarpattia | Zaporizhia | Zhytomyr | ||
| autonomous republic: | Crimea | ||
| cities with special status: | Kiev | Sevastopol | ||
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