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Kharkiv, [a] also known as Kharkov, [b] is the second-largest city in Ukraine. [7] Located in the northeast of the country, it is the largest city of the historic region of Sloboda Ukraine. Kharkiv is the administrative centre of Kharkiv Oblast and Kharkiv Raion. It had a population, before the Russian invasion, of 1,421,125 (2022 estimate). [8]
Most of Ukraine's oblasts are named after their capital cities, officially called "oblast centers" (Ukrainian: обласний центр, translit. oblasnyi tsentr).The name of each oblast is a relative adjective, formed by adding a feminine suffix to the name of respective center city: Kharkiv is the center of the Kharkivs’ka oblast’ (Kharkiv Oblast).
There are 17 populated places in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine, that have been officially granted city status (Ukrainian: місто, romanized: misto) by the Verkhovna Rada, the country's parliament. [2] Settlements with more than 10,000 people are eligible for city status, although the status is typically also granted to settlements of historical ...
Most of Ukraine's area is taken up by the steppe-like region just north of the Black Sea. Most of Ukraine consists of fertile plains (or steppes) and plateaus. In terms of land use, 58% of Ukraine is considered arable land; 2% is used for permanent crops, 13% for permanent pastures, 18% is forests and woodland, and 9% is other.
Near the northernmost tip of Russia’s attack in Ukraine, Moscow’s troops have also made advances through the town of Dvorichina in the Kharkiv region. It is just north of the city of Kupyansk.
Ukraine and Russia have been fighting in the streets of Chasiv Yar, a city in the Donetsk region, since July, when Kyiv’s troops withdrew from the eastern Kanal neighbourhood, establishing the ...
Vysokyi (Ukrainian: Високий, Russian: Высокий) is a rural settlement in Kharkiv Raion of Kharkiv Oblast in Ukraine. It is located approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) southwest of the city of Kharkiv. Vysokyi hosts the administration of Vysokyi settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. [1] Population: 9,630 (2022 ...
Druzhelyubivka (Ukrainian: Дружелюбівка; Russian: Дружелюбовка) is a village in the Izium Raion of Kharkiv Oblast in eastern Ukraine, at about 141.95 kilometres (88.20 mi) southeast by east of the centre of Kharkiv city. [2] It belongs to Borova rural hromada , one of the hromadas of Ukraine.