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Khersons’ka oblast’; also referred to as
Khersonshchyna -
) is an
oblastUkraine is subdivided into 24 oblasts , one autonomous republic, and two "cities with special status".- Overview :...
(province) in southern
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, just north of
CrimeaCrimea or the Autonomous Republic of Crimea is the only autonomous republic of Ukraine. It is located on the northern coast of the Black Sea, occupying a peninsula of the same name.The territory of Crimea was conquered and controlled many times throughout its history...
. Its
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is
KhersonKherson is a city in southern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Kherson Oblast , and is designated as its own separate raion within the oblast...
. The area of the region is 29000 km², its population (as of 2004-05-01) is 1.12 million.
Important cities in the oblast include:
- Kherson
Kherson is a city in southern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Kherson Oblast , and is designated as its own separate raion within the oblast...
(capital)
- Kakhovka
Kakhovka is a port city on the Dnieper River in the Kherson Oblast of southern Ukraine. Serving as the administrative center of the Kakhovsky Raion , the city itself is also designated as a separate raion within the oblast, and is located at around ....
- Nova Kakhovka
Nova Kakhovka is a city in the Kherson Oblast of southern Ukraine. It is designated as a separate raion within the oblast, and is an important river port on Dnieper River and the Kakhovka Reservoir. It is also the site of the Tavria Games, Nova Kakhovka is a city in the Kherson Oblast of...
Geography
The Kherson Oblast is bordered by the
Dnipropetrovsk OblastDnipropetrovsk Oblast is an oblast of central Ukraine, the most important industrial region of the country...
on the north, the
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and the
CrimeaCrimea or the Autonomous Republic of Crimea is the only autonomous republic of Ukraine. It is located on the northern coast of the Black Sea, occupying a peninsula of the same name.The territory of Crimea was conquered and controlled many times throughout its history...
on the south, the Mykolayiv Oblast on the west, and the Azov Sea and the Zaporizhzhia Oblast on the east.
The
Dnieper RiverThe Dnieper River or Dnipro River is one of the major rivers in Europe that flows from Russia, through Belarus and Ukraine, to the Black Sea. Its total length is , of which lie within Russia, within Belarus, and within Ukraine. Its basin covers , of which are within Ukraine...
runs through the oblast which includes the
Kakhovka ReservoirThe Kakhovka Reservoir is a water reservoir located on the Dnieper River. It covers a total surface area of 2,155 square kilometres in the territories of the Kherson, Zaporizhia, and the Dnipropetrovsk Oblasts of Ukraine...
.
Administrative divisions
The following data incorporates the number of each type of administrative divisions of the Kherson Oblast:
- Administrative Center - 1 (Kherson
Kherson is a city in southern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Kherson Oblast , and is designated as its own separate raion within the oblast...
)
- Raions — 18;
- City raions — 3;
- Settlements — 697, including:
- Villages — 658;
- Cities/Towns — 39, including:
- Urban-type settlement
Urban-type settlement is an official designation for a certain type of urban localities used in some of the countries of the former Soviet Union....
— 30;
- Cities — 9, including:
- Cities of oblast' subordinance — 3;
- Cities of raion subordinance — 6;
- Selsovets — 260.
The local administration of the oblast' is controlled by the Kherson Oblast Rada. The governor of the oblast' is the Kherson Oblast Rada speaker, appointed by the
President of UkraineThe President of Ukraine is the head of state of Ukraine, representing the state in international relations, administers the foreign political activity of the State, conducts negotiations and concludes international treaties of Ukraine....
.
Demographics
The population of the oblast is 1,367,685 (2004), which is 2.4% of the total population of Ukraine. It is also ranked 21
st by its population. The population density is 43 p/km²
About 61.5% or 745,400 people live in urban areas of the Oblast and 38.5% or 467,600 people live in agricultural centers/villages. Men make up 46.7% or 565,400 people of the population, women make up 53.3% or 644,600 people, and
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s make up 26.2% or 317,400 people of the Oblast population.
Ukrainian National Census (2001)The first Ukrainian Census was carried out by State Statistics Committee of Ukraine on 5 December 2001, twelve years after the last Soviet Union census in 1989....
:
- Ukrainians
Ukrainians are an East Slavic ethnic group primarily living in Ukraine, or more broadly—citizens of Ukraine...
— 14,1%
- Russians
The Russian people are an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries....
— 82,0%
- Belarusians
Belarusians are an East Slavic ethnic group who populate the majority of the Republic of Belarus. Introduced to the world as a new state in the early 1990s, the Republic of Belarus brought with it the notion of a re-emerging Belarusian ethnicity, drawn upon the lines of the Belarusian language...
— 0,7%
- Crimean Tatars
Crimean Tatars or Crimeans are a Turkic ethnic group originally residing in Crimea. They speak the Crimean Tatar language...
— 0,5%
- Others — 2,7%
Attractions
- Askania-Nova
Askania-Nova is a biosphere reserve located next to the urban-settlement of Askania-Nova in Kherson Oblast, Ukraine, located within the dry Tavriya steppe...
- Legendary tachanka monument
- Kurhan cemetery
- Shovkunek Art museum
- Saint-Yekaterynian Temple
See also
- Subdivisions of Ukraine
- Kherson Governorate
The Kherson Governorate or Government of Kherson was a guberniya, or administrative territorial unit, in the Southern Ukrainian region, between the Dnieper and Dniester Rivers, of the Russian Empire. It was one of three governorates created in 1802 when the Novorossiya guberniya was abolished...
- Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky , born Leyba Davidov Bronstein , was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist. He was one of the leaders of the Russian October Revolution, second only to Lenin...
, who was born here.
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