Kiev Oblast
| Kievs'ka Oblast' Київська область | |
|---|---|
| Missing image Map_of_Ukraine_political_simple_Oblast_Kiew.png Location of Kiev Oblast | |
| Missing image Kiev_oblast_detail_map.png Detailed map of Kiev Oblast | |
| Population Total (2004) Density Urban | 1,789,259 64/km² 58.6% |
| Area | 28,100 km² |
| Raions | 25 |
| Cities | 25 |
| City districts | n/a |
| Urban localities | 30 |
| Villages | 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 kmē. 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 | Missing image Ukraine_flag_large.png Flag of Ukraine | ||
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| 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 | ||