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Young family in Donetsk. In 2013, the population of Donetsk Oblast was 4.43 million, which constituted 10% of the overall Ukrainian population, making it the most populous and most densely populated region of the country, except for the cities with special status (Kyiv and Sevastopol). Its large population is due to the presence of several big ...
Donetsk (UK: / d ɒ n ˈ j ɛ t s k / don-YETSK, [1] US: / d ə n-/ dən-; [2] [3] Ukrainian: Донецьк [doˈnɛtsʲk] ⓘ; Russian: Донецк [dɐˈnʲetsk] ⓘ), formerly known as Aleksandrovka, Yuzivka (or Hughesovka), Stalin, and Stalino, is an industrial city in eastern Ukraine located on the Kalmius River in Donetsk Oblast, which is currently occupied by Russia as the capital of ...
The Luhansk and Donetsk Peoples Republics are located in the historical Donbas region of Eastern Ukraine. Since Ukraine's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Eastern and Western Ukraine typically have voted for different candidates in presidential elections. Viktor Yanukovych, a Donetsk native, was elected as President of Ukraine in 2010
The population of all Ukrainian oblasts and other regions was recorded in 2012. [1] Note that since the war in Donbas started in the spring of 2014, 1,5 million people from Donetsk Oblast and Luhansk Oblast have either fled to Russia or to other parts of Ukraine.
Almost a third of the country's population lives in the region, which includes several cities with population of around a million. Within Ukraine, the region is the most highly urbanized, particularly portions of central Kharkiv Oblast, south-western Luhansk Oblast, central, northern and eastern areas of Donetsk Oblast.
English: Districts of the Donetsk region of Ukraine according to the Decree of the Verkhovna Rada of July 17, 2020 against the background of the old administrative boundaries of districts and cities of regional significance (city councils) and displaying the territories of the unrecognized DPR that are not controlled by the Ukrainian authorities.
The following other wikis use this file: Usage on ar.wikipedia.org وحدة:Location map/data/Ukraine Donetsk Oblast; وحدة:Location map/data/Ukraine Donetsk Oblast/شرح
Ethnic Russians by region (Census 2001). Russia used the "protection" of ethnic Russians and Russian speakers in Ukraine as one of the pretexts for the invasion and occupation. [12] [13] Vast regions to the north of the Black Sea were sparsely populated and were known as the Wild Fields (as translated from Polish or Ukrainian).