Chop, Ukraine
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| Chop Чоп |
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| Country | Ukraine | ||
| Oblast | Chop City Municipality | ||
| Raion | Municipality | ||
| Government | |||
| - Mayor | Galina Car | ||
| Elevation | 101-108 m (-253 ft) | ||
| Population (2007) | |||
| - Total | 8,765 | ||
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) | ||
| - Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) | ||
| Postal code | 89502 | ||
| Area code(s) | +380 22 | ||
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| Sister cities | Milove (Ukraine) Sokołów Małopolski, (Poland) Záhony (Hungaria) |
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| Website: http://chop.org.ua/ | |||
Chop (Ukrainian: Чоп, Hungarian: Csap, Slovak: Čop) is a city located in the Zakarpattia Oblast (province) of western Ukraine, near the borders of Slovakia and Hungary. It is separated from the Hungarian town of Záhony by the river Tisza, and the city itself is designated as a separate raion (district) within the oblast.
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[edit] Demography
According to the Ukrainian national census, Chop had a population in 2001 of 8,919, of whom 40% were Ukrainians, 39.2% ethnic Hungarians and 20.8% Gypsies, Russians, Slovaks, Belarusians, Jews .
[edit] Features
Chop is an important railway junction in Ukraine where the Lviv-Stryi-Budapest railway line meets the Lviv-Uzhgorod-Košice line. Near Chop, there are also international railway and highway border crossings to Hungary and Slovakia and also to the westernmost point of Ukraine.
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[edit] External links
- Chop in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine
- [http://mana.com.ua/M-34-129.jpg Chop (Чоп) of Ukraine 1:100,000 topographic maps
- [http://www.openit.com.ua/reportage.php?id=101 - Discovering The Everyday Life in Chop
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