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Mykolayivs’ka oblast’; also referred to as
Mykolaivshchyna -
) is an
oblastUkraine is subdivided into 24 oblasts , one autonomous republic, and two "cities with special status".- Overview :...
(province) of
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. The
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of the oblast is the city of Mykolayiv.
Geography
The Mykoliav Oblast is located in the southern half of Ukraine. Its area (24,600 km²), comprises about 4.07% of the total area of Ukraine.
The Mykolaiv Oblast borders upon the
Odessa OblastOdessa Oblast, also written as Odesa Oblast , is an oblast of south-western Ukraine...
in the west-southwest, the
Kirovohrad OblastKirovohrad Oblast is an oblast of Ukraine...
in the north, the
Dnipropetrovsk OblastDnipropetrovsk Oblast is an oblast of central Ukraine, the most important industrial region of the country...
in the northeast, and the
Kherson OblastKherson Oblast is an oblast in southern Ukraine, just north of Crimea. Its administrative center is Kherson...
on the southeast.
On the south the obalst' is also bordered by the
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. On the shoreline, there are several ports and the Mykolaiv International Airport.
Points of Interest
The following historic-cultural sites were nominated for the
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.
- Olbia
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- Dykiy sad (Wild Garden)
Demographics
The current estimated population is 1.2 million people (as of 2005). The greater part of the oblast's population resides in urban type settlements (66%), with the remainder residing in agricultural areas. Also, almost 60% of the urban population resides in Mykolayiv, the industrial, cultural and administrative center of Mykolayiv Oblast.
The oblast's population density is one of the lowest in Ukraine – 52 people per 1 km². The oblast' is ranked 18 by the percentage of the population of Ukraine, that the Mykolaiv Oblast contain, which os 2.6%.
Administrative divisions
The Mykolaiv Oblast formed in September of 1937. It is subdivided into: 19
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s (administrative districts), and 5 of its cities are designated as separate raions within the oblast.
The following data incorporates the number of each type of administrative divisions of the Mykolaiv Oblast:
- Administrative Center - 1 (Mykolaiv
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)
- Raions — 19;
- City raions — 4;
- Settlements — 922, including:
- Villages — 896;
- Cities/Towns — 26, 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....
— 17;
- Cities — 9, including:
- Cities of oblast' subordinance — 5;
- Cities of raion subordinance — 4;
- Selsovets — 287.
The local administration of the oblast' is controlled by the Mykolaiv Oblast Rada. The governor of the oblast' is the Mykolaiv Oblast Rada speaker, appointed by the
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.
Nomenclature
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oblasnyi tsentr). The name of each oblast is a
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, formed by adding a feminine
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to the name of respective center city:
Mykolaiv is the center of the
Mykolaivs’ka oblast’ (Mykolaiv Oblast). Most oblasts are also sometimes referred to in a feminine noun form, following the convention of traditional regional place names, ending with the suffix "-shchyna", as is the case with the Mykolaiv Oblast,
Mykolaivshchyna.
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