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Settlements with more than 10,000 people are eligible for city status although the status is typically also granted to settlements of historical or regional importance. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Smaller settlements are rural settlements ( Ukrainian : селище , romanized : selyshche ) and villages ( Ukrainian : село , romanized : selo ).
The city lies on the northwestern coast of the Black Sea along the southwestern shore of the Gulf of Odesa, approximately 31 km (19 mi) north of the estuary of the Dniester river and some 443 km (275 mi) south of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.
Located 316 kilometres (200 mi) south of Kyiv, the city is the biggest by size within the Central Ukraine and being situated in the right-bank portion of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. In addition, the city is located right on the conditional border where Dnieper Upland transitions to Black Sea Lowland.
Bila Tserkva, the most populous city in Kyiv Oblast [2] [12] Brovary, second largest city in the oblast and the largest satellite city of Kyiv [2] [13] Boryspil, the oblast's fourth largest city and the site of the largest airport in Ukraine [2] [14] Pripyat, the country's smallest city and a ghost town as the result of its abandonment after the Chernobyl disaster [2] [15]
Kyiv hosts many universities, the major ones being Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, [141] the National Technical University "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute", [142] Kyiv-Mohyla Academy [143] and the Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics. Of these, the Mohyla Academy is the oldest, founded as a theological school in 1632, but ...
Obukhiv (Ukrainian: Обухів, IPA:) is a city in Kyiv Oblast of Ukraine and the administrative center of Obukhiv Raion. It hosts the administration of Obukhiv urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. [1] Population: 33,287 (2022 estimate). [2] In 2024, the population was 32,600. [3]
Slavutych is situated on the left bank of the Dnieper River, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Chernihiv, 45 kilometers (30 miles) from the city of Pripyat, 50 kilometers (30 miles) from Chernobyl (both in Vyshhorod Raion) and 200 kilometers (100 miles) from Kyiv.
Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) geographic division of Ukraine used in their polls. In a poll conducted by Kyiv International Institute of Sociology in the first half of February 2014, 19.4% of those polled in southern Ukraine believed "Ukraine and Russia must unite into a single state"; nationwide this percentage was 12.5. [18]