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Kharkiv Oblast
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oblast of Ukraine
Kharkiv Oblast is a region in northeastern Ukraine that serves as an important administrative and economic center for the country. It matters because it is one of Ukraine's largest and most populous regions, containing significant industrial, cultural, and strategic importance to the nation.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- oblast of Ukraine
- Official name
- Харківська область
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Located in
- Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
- Contains
- Lozova Raion
- Capital
- Kharkiv
- Population
- 2598961
- Area
- 31415
- Elevation
- 236
- Time zone
- Eastern European Time
- Head of government
- Oleh Syniehubov
- Legislature
- Kharkiv Oblast Council
- Shares border with
- Belgorod Oblast
- Official website
- kharkivoda.gov.ua
- Dialing code
- 57
- Licence plate code
- АХ
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- Commons category
- Kharkiv Oblast
- topic's main category
- Category:Kharkiv Oblast
- category for people who died here
- Category:Deaths in Kharkiv Oblast
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Kharkiv Oblast
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Kharkiv Oblast
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- inception
- 1932-02-09
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- native label
- Харьковская область
- category for people buried here
- Q7978616
- freedom of information requests URL
- public.kh.gov.ua/zapit.html
- web feed URL
- kharkivoda.gov.ua/rssua.xml
- phone number
- +380-57-700-04-12
- topic has template
- Template:Kharkiv Oblast
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Encyclopedic overview
Kharkiv Oblast (Ukrainian: Харківська область, romanized: Kharkivska oblast, Russian: Харьковская область, romanized: Kharkovskaya oblast), also referred to as Kharkivshchyna (Ukrainian: Харківщина), is an oblast (province) in eastern Ukraine.
Kharkiv borders Luhansk Oblast to the east, Donetsk Oblast to the southeast, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast to the southwest, Poltava Oblast to the west, Sumy Oblast to the northwest and Russia's Belgorod Oblast to the north. Its area is 31,400 square kilometres (12,100 sq mi), or 5.2% of the total territory of Ukraine.
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