Kiev Oblast
| Kiev Oblast' Київська область | |
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| Population Total (2004) Density Urban | 1,789,259 (excluding Kiev) 64/km² 58.6% |
| Area | 28,100 km² |
| Raions | 25 |
| Cities | 25 |
| City districts | n/a |
| Urban localities | 30 |
| Villages | 1,129 |
Kiev Oblast (also Kyiv Oblast) is an oblast (province) in central Ukraine. Ukrainian: Київська область, Kyivs’ka oblast’ or Київщина, Kyivshchyna.
Its capital is Kiev (Ukrainian: Київ or Kyiv). Despite hosting governing bodies of the oblast, administratively Kiev itself is not subordinated to the oblast's governing bodies (see Subdivisions of Ukraine). The current chairman of the Kiev Oblast State Administration is Yevhen Zhovtiak [1].
The area of the oblast is 28,100 km² (appoximately 35 times the area of Kiev city). Its population, excluding Kiev itself, (as of 2004-05-01) is 1.8 million. Geographically, the oblast is divided into two almost equal parts by the Dnieper River flowing southwards. Other significant rivers in the oblast are Dnieper's tributaries: Prypiat (R), Desna (L), Teteriv (R), Irpin', Ros' and Trubizh.
The north-western end of the oblast is a part of the Chornobyl zone of alienation due to the radioactive contamination caused by the Chernobyl (Chornobyl) nuclear reactor accident. The largest city within zone is Pryp'yat (now a ghost town).
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History
The oblast in its current borders was created in the Ukrainian SSR on February 27, 1932 after the Soviet administrative reform. It is further subdivided into 25 raions (administrative districts). Historical administrative units that later became the territory of the Oblast included the Kiev Guberniya under the Russian Empire and Kijow Voivodship under the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
Important cities
- Bila Tserkva
- Brovary
- Boryspil'
- Fastiv
- Irpin'-Kotsiubynske-Bucha-Vorzel (these neighboring towns are practically merged into conurbation)
- Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi
- Tarascha
- Vasyl'kiv
- Vyshhorod
See also
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| Subdivisions of Ukraine | 
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| oblasts: | Cherkasy | Chernihiv | Chernivtsi | Dnipropetrovsk | Donetsk | Ivano-Frankivsk | Kharkiv | Kherson | Khmelnytskyi | Kirovohrad | Kiev | Luhansk | Lviv | Mykolaiv | Odessa | Poltava | Rivne | Sumy | Ternopil | Vinnytsia | Volyn | Zakarpattia | Zaporizhia | Zhytomyr | ||
| autonomous republic: | Crimea | ||
| cities with special status: | Kiev | Sevastopol | ||
