Kiev Oblast
| Kyivs’ka oblast’ Київська область | |
|---|---|
| capital | Kyiv |
| established | 1939-12–04 |
| population total | 1,789,259 |
| area | 28,100 km² |
| raions cities city districts urban-type localities villages | 25 25 - 30 1,129 |
Kiev Oblast (Київська область, Kyivs’ka oblast’ or Київщина, Kyivshchyna in Ukrainian) is an oblast (province) in northern Ukraine. Its capital is Kyiv. Despite hosting governing bodies of the province, Kyiv itself is independent from surrounding oblast' (being a municipality).
Geographically, the province is divided into two almost equal parts by the Dnipro 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 Kyiv 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
| Subdivisions of Ukraine | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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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