Chop, Zakarpattia Oblast

Chop
Чоп - Csap

City of regional significance

Railway station in Chop

Flag

Coat of arms

Chop

Location of Chop

Chop

Coordinates: 48°25′50″N 22°12′00″E / 48.43056°N 22.20000°E

Country

Ukraine

Oblast

Zakarpattia Oblast

Council

Chop city council

Government

• Mayor

Galina Car

Elevation

101-108 m (−253 ft)

Population (2013)

• Total

8,994

Time zone

CET (UTC+1)

• Summer (DST)

CEST (UTC+2)

Postal code

89502

Area code(s)

+380 22

Climate

Cfb

Sister cities

Milove (Ukraine)
Sokołów Małopolski, (Poland)
Záhony (Hungaria)

Website

http://chop.org.ua/

Chop (Ukrainian: Чоп) is a city located in 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 by being situated on its right bank. Located inside Uzhhorod Raion, since 2003 it is designated as a city of oblast significance - not included in any raion (district) of the oblast. Population: 8,994 (2013 est.)^[1].

Names

There are several alternative names used for this city: Hungarian: Csap, Slovak: Čop, German: Tschop, Romanian: Ciop, Polish: Czop, Russian: Чоп.

History

Like the rest of Transcarpathia, Csap (as it was then known) was part of Hungary until 1920, when, as a result of the post-WWI Treaty of Trianon, it was included in the newly created Czechoslovakia, where it belonged to Slovakia, not to Subcarpathian Rus. During World War II, under the First Vienna Award, it briefly became Hungarian again. But, after the war, as part of the outcome of the Yalta Conference, it became part of the expanded Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (now Ukraine), adopting the Ukrainian version of its name, 'Чоп' (usually transliterated as 'Chop' or 'Tchop' in English).

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, and Jews.

Features

Passport stamps from Chop.

Old 1982 USSR passport stamps from the same crossing.

Chop is an important railway junction in Ukraine where the Lviv-Stryi-Budapest railway line meets the Lviv-Uzhgorod-Košice line. There is also a line running eastwards to Romania via Korolevo and Halmeu although there are currently no regular passenger services.

Near Chop, there are also international railway and highway border crossings to Hungary and Slovakia and also to the westernmost point of Ukraine. The first town across the border in Slovakia is Čierna nad Tisou while in Hungary, the first city is Záhony.