Cherkasy (Черкаська область, Cherkas’ka oblast’ in Ukrainian) is a region of central Ukraine. Its capital is Cherkasy. Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... See rayon for the textile made of processed cellulose. ... A city is an urban area, differentiated from a town, village, or hamlet by size, population density, importance, or legal status. ... Ukrainian is an East Slavic language, one of three members of this language group, the other two being Russian and Belarusian. ... Ukraine is subdivided into 24 regions (oblasti, singular oblast), 1 autonomous republic (avtonomna respublika), and 2 municipalities (mista, singular misto) with special legal status. ... Ukraine (Україна, Ukrayina in Ukrainian; Украина in Russian) is a republic in eastern Europe which borders Russia to the east, Belarus to the north, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary to the west, Romania and Moldova to the southwest and the Black Sea to the south. ... In politics a capital (also called capital city or political capital — although the latter phrase has an alternative meaning based on an alternative meaning of capital) is the principal city or town associated with its government. ... Cherkasy (Ukrainian Черкаси) - a city in the central part of Ukraine (about 200km south of Kyiv), capital of Cherkaska oblast, with 280,700 inhabitants (2004). ...

The area of the region is 20,900 km², its population (as of 2004-05-01) is 1,367,685. 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... May 1 is the 121st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (122nd in leap years). ...