Kherson Oblast

Kherson Oblast (Ukrainian: Херсонська область, translit. Khersons’ka oblast’; also referred to as Khersonshchyna – Ukrainian: Херсонщина) is an oblast (province) in southern Ukraine, just north of Crimea. Its administrative center is Kherson. The area of the region is 29000 km², its population (as of 1 May 2004) is 1.12 million.

Important cities in the oblast include:

Geography

The Kherson Oblast is bordered by the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on the north, the Black Sea and the Crimea on the south, the Mykolayiv Oblast on the west, and the Azov Sea and the Zaporizhzhia Oblast on the east.

The Dnieper River runs through the oblast which includes the Kakhovka Reservoir.

Administrative divisions

The following data incorporates the number of each type of administrative divisions of the Kherson Oblast:

Administrative Center – 1 (Kherson)
Raions – 18;
City raions – 3;
Settlements – 697, including:
- Villages – 658;
- Cities/Towns – 39, including:
  - Urban-type settlement – 30;
  - Cities – 9, including:
    - Cities of oblast' subordinance – 3;
    - Cities of raion subordinance – 6;
Selsovets – 260.

The local administration of the oblast' is controlled by the Kherson Oblast Rada. The governor of the oblast' is the Kherson Oblast Rada speaker, appointed by the President of Ukraine.

Kherson Oblast State Administration

Demographics

The population of the oblast is 1,367,685 (2004), which is 2.4% of the total population of Ukraine. It is also ranked 21st by its population. The population density is 43 p/km²

About 61.5% or 745,400 people live in urban areas of the Oblast and 38.5% or 467,600 people live in agricultural centers/villages. Men make up 46.7% or 565,400 people of the population, women make up 53.3% or 644,600 people, and pensioners make up 26.2% or 317,400 people of the Oblast population.

Ukrainian National Census (2001):

Ukrainians – 82.0%
Russians – 14.1%
Belarusians – 0.7%
Crimean Tatars – 0.5%
Others – 2.7%

Age structure

0-14 years: 15.1%

(male 83,397/female 79,303)

15-64 years: 70.5%

(male 364,907/female 393,933)

65 years and over: 14.4%

(male 50,404/female 104,856) (2013 official)

Median age

total: 39.5 years

male: 36.2 years

female: 42.7 years

(2013 official)

Attractions

Askania-Nova
Legendary tachanka monument
Kurhan cemetery
Shovkunek Art museum
Saint-Yekaterynian Temple

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 President appoints 14 regional governors, Interfax-Ukraine (18 March 2010)
↑ Crimean Tatars, Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization

External links

Portal of Kherson
Site of Kherson nationalists
State Administration of Kherson Region – official site (Ukrainian)
Information Card of the Region – official site of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine

Administrative divisions of Kherson Oblast

Administrative center: Kherson

Districts

Cities

Regional	Kakhovka Kherson Nova Kakhovka

District	Beryslav Henichesk Hola Prystan Skadovsk Tavriisk Tsiurupynsk

Urban-type settlements · Category:Kherson Oblast

v t e Administrative divisions of Ukraine

Capital: Kiev

Oblasts	Cherkasy Chernihiv Chernivtsi Dnipropetrovsk Donetsk Ivano-Frankivsk Kharkiv Kherson Khmelnytskyi Kiev Kirovohrad Luhansk Lviv Mykolaiv Odessa Poltava Rivne Sumy Ternopil Vinnytsia Volyn Zakarpattia Zaporizhia Zhytomyr

Cities with special status	Kiev Sevastopol

Autonomous republic	Crimea

Administrative centers	Cherkasy Chernihiv Chernivtsi Dnipropetrovsk Donetsk Ivano-Frankivsk Kharkiv Kherson Khmelnytskyi Kiev Kirovohrad Luhansk Lutsk Lviv Mykolaiv Odessa Poltava Rivne Sevastopol Simferopol Sumy Ternopil Uzhhorod Vinnytsia Zaporizhia Zhytomyr

Coordinates: 46°30′N 34°00′E / 46.500°N 34.000°E / 46.500; 34.000

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