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Encyclopedia > Chop, Ukraine
Railway station in Chop

Chop (Ukrainian: Чоп, Hungarian: Csap) 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. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (2288 × 1712 pixels, file size: 837 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Railway station in Chop, Zakarpattia, Ukraine. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (2288 × 1712 pixels, file size: 837 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Railway station in Chop, Zakarpattia, Ukraine. ... For other uses, see City (disambiguation). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Oblast (Czech: oblast, Slovak: oblasÅ¥, Russian and Ukrainian: , Belarusian: , Bulgarian: о́бласт) refers to a subnational entity in some countries. ... Záhony is a town in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary. ... The Tisza or Tisa is one of the major rivers of Central Europe. ... A raion (or rayon) (Russian and Ukrainian: ; Belarusian раён; Azeri: rayon, Latvian: rajons, Georgian: , raioni) is one of two kinds of administrative subdivisions in languages of some post-Soviet states: a subnational entity and a subdivision of a city. ...

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Demographics

By the census of 2001, Chop had a population of 8,919, of which 40% were Ukrainians, 39,2% ethnic Hungarians and 20,8% Gypsies. The first Ukrainian Census after the dissolution of the Soviet Union was carried out by State Statistics Committee of Ukraine on December 5, 2001, twelve years after the last All-Union census in 1989. ...


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. “Lvov” redirects here. ... Stryi (Ukrainian: , Polish: Stryj, also known as Stryy, Stryia and Stry) is a city located on the left bank of the Stryi River in the Lviv Oblast (province) of western Ukraine (in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains). ... For other uses, see Budapest (disambiguation). ... “Lvov” redirects here. ... Uzhhorod (Ukrainian and Russian: Ужгород, Slovak and Czech: Užhorod, Hungarian: Ungvár, German: Ungwar, Yiddish: אונגװיר, Ungvir, Ingver, Yngvyr) is a city in Ukraine, at the border with Slovakia. ... Location of KoÅ¡ice in Slovakia Coordinates: , Country Slovakia Region KoÅ¡ice Region Districts KoÅ¡ice I-IV City parts First mentioned 1230 Government  - Type City Council  - Mayor FrantiÅ¡ek Knapík Area  - City 243. ... Border control Border control is a term that describes how a country polices its borders. ...


See also

// Carpathian Ruthenia, aka Transcarpathian Ruthenia, Subcarpathian Rus, Subcarpathia (Ukrainian: Karpats’ka Rus’; Slovak and Czech: Podkarpatská Rus; Hungarian: Kárpátalja; Romanian: Transcarpatia) is a small region of Central Europe, now mostly in western Ukraines Zakarpattia Oblast (Ukrainian: Zakarpats’ka oblast’) and easternmost Slovakia (largely in Prešov kraj...

External links

  • Chop in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine
  • Chop (Чоп) of Ukraine 1:100,000 topographic maps
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Coordinates: 48°26′N, 22°12′E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...



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