MYKOLAIV OBLAST

'Mykolaiv Oblast' (, translit. ''Mykolayivs’ka oblast’''; also referred to as 'Mykolaivshchyna' - '') is an oblast (province) of Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Mykolayiv.

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Geography

Demographics

Administrative divisions

Nomenclature

See also

External links

Geography

The Mykoliav Oblast is located in the southern half of Ukraine. Its area (24,600 km²), comprises about 4.07% of the total area of Ukraine.
The Mykolaiv Oblast borders upon the Odessa Oblast in the west-southwest, the Kirovohrad Oblast in the north, the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast in the northeast, and the Kherson Oblast on the southeast.
On the south the obalst' is also bordered by the Black Sea. On the shoreline, there are several ports and the Mykolaiv International Airport.

Demographics

The current estimated population is 1.2 million people (as of 2005). Thh greater part of the oblast's population resides in urban type settlements (66%), with the other half residing in agricultural areas. Also, almost 60% of urban population resides in Mykolayiv, the industrial, cultural and administrative center of Mykolayiv Oblast.
The oblast's population density is one of the lowest in Ukraine – 52 people per 1 km². The oblast' is ranked 18 by the percentage of the population of Ukraine, that the Mykolaiv Oblast contain, which os 2.6%.

Administrative divisions

The Mykolaiv Oblast formed in September of 1937. It is subdivided into: 19 raions (administrative districts), and 5 of its cities are designated as separate raions within the oblast.
The following data incorporates the number of each type of administrative divisions of the Mykolaiv Oblast:

★ Administrative Center - 1 (Mykolaiv)

★ Raions — 19;

★ City raions — 4;

★ Settlements — 922, including:

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★ Villages — 896;

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★ Cities/Towns — 26, including:

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★ Urban-type settlement — 17;

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★ Cities — 9, including:

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★ Cities of oblast' subordinance — 5;

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★ Cities of raion subordinance — 4;

★ Selsovets — 287.
The local administration of the oblast' is controlled by the Mykolaiv Oblast Rada. The governor of the oblast' is the Mykolaiv Oblast Rada speaker, appointed by the President of Ukraine.

Nomenclature

Most of Ukraine's oblasts are named after their capital cities, officially referred to as "oblast centers" (, 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: ''Mykolaiv'' is the center of the ''Mykolaivs’ka oblast’'' (Mykolaiv Oblast). Most oblasts are also sometimes referred to in a feminine noun form, following the convention of traditional regional place names, ending with the suffix "-shchyna", as is the case with the Mykolaiv Oblast, ''Mykolaivshchyna''.

See also

★ Subdivisions of Ukraine

★ Kherson Governorate

External links

★ State Administration of Mykolaiv Oblast - official site //

★ Information Card of the Region - official site of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine