Rakhiv
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Rakhiv (Ukrainian: Рахів, Hungarian: Rahó, Romanian: Rahău, Russian: Рахов, translit. Rakhov, Rusyn: Рахово, translit. Rakhovo) is a city located in the Zakarpattia Oblast (province) in western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Rakhivskyi Raion (district).
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[edit] Demographics
As of 2001, the city population was 14,969 inhabitants which included: [1]
- 83.8% Ukrainians
- 11.6% Romanians
- 3.2% Hungarians
- 0.8% Russians
[edit] Features
Rakhiv, or more precisely, the village Dilove located close to it, is one of several European locations vying for the symbolic right to be Geographical centre of Europe. The sign in Dilove (pictured) located at , the point calculated in 1887 by the Austro-Hungarian geographers, carries a latin iscription: "Locus Perennis Dilicentissime cum libella librationis quae est in Austria et Hungaria confectacum mensura gradum meridionalium et paralleloumierum Europeum. MD CCC LXXXVII."
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Rakhiv in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine
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Administrative divisions of Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine |  |
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Raions: Berehivskyi | Irshavskyi | Khustskyi | Mizhhirskyi | Mukachivskyi | Perechynskyi | Rakhivskyi | Svaliavskyi | Tiachivskyi | Uzhhorodskyi | Velykobereznianskyi | Volovetskyi | Vynohradivskyi |
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Cities: Berehove | Chop | Irshava | Khust | Mukacheve | Perechyn | Rakhiv | Svaliava | Tiachiv | Uzhhorod | Vynohradiv |
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Urban-type settlements: Mizhhiria | Velykyy Bereznyi | Velykyy Bychkiv | Volovets | more... |
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Villages: more... |
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