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Encyclopedia > Poltava Oblast
Poltavs’ka oblast’
Полтавська область
Poltavs'ka oblast' is located ...
capital Poltava
population

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   urban Download high resolution version (1181x825, 16 KB) Map of Ukraine with highlighted Oblast made by Sven Teschke, Germany, 2004 --Steschke 09:31, 2004 Nov 8 (UTC) see also: english version: Image:Map_of_Ukraine_political_enwiki. ... Poltava (Ukrainian: ) is a city and oblast center in Poltava Oblast of eastern Ukraine with some 313,400 inhabitants (2004). ... Population density can be used as a measurement of any tangible item. ...


1,584,446
55/km²
59.2%

area 28,800 km²
raions
cities
city districts
urban-type
localities
villages
25
15
5

21
1,831

Poltava Oblast (Полтавська область, Poltavs’ka oblast’ or Полтавщина, Poltavshchyna in Ukrainian) is an oblast (province) of central Ukraine. Its capital is Poltava. Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... See rayon for the textile made of processed cellulose. ... An oblast (Russian, Ukrainian: о́бласть) is a subnational entity of Bulgaria, the Russian Federation, Ukraine, and the now-defunct Soviet Union, approximately equivalent to a province. ... 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. ... Poltava (Ukrainian: ) is a city and oblast center in Poltava Oblast of eastern Ukraine with some 313,400 inhabitants (2004). ...


The province is a center of Ukraine's oil and natural gas industry, with many wells and pipelines situated here. There is a major oil refinery plant in the city of Krementchuk. Important iron ore processing facilities also present. Oil is a generic term for organic liquids that are not miscible with water. ... Natural gas rig Natural gas (commonly refered to as gas in many countries) is a gaseous fossil fuel consisting primarily of methane. ... An oil well is a laymans term for any perforation through the Earths surface designed to find and release both petroleum oil and gas hydrocarbons. ... View of the Shell/Valero Martinez oil refinery An oil refinery is an industrial process plant where crude oil is processed and refined into useful petroleum products. ... Kremenchuk (Ukrainian: Кременчук) is an important industrial city in central Ukraine, located on the banks of Dnipro. ... This heap of iron ore pellets will be used in steel production. ...


It is believed that normalized Ukrainian has been based on 19th century local peasant dialect. But now at least half of the province' population speaks either Russian or its mixture with Ukrainian named Surzhyk. It was mostly a result of industry-related immigration and Russification. Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... A dialect (from the Greek word διάλεκτος) is a variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area. ... Surzhyk (суржик, originally meaning flour or bread made from mixed grains, e. ... This article is about the political term. ...


The area of the province is 28,800 km²; its population (as of 2005-05-01) is 1.6 million people. 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... May 1 is the 121st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (122nd in leap years). ...



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autonomous republic: Crimea
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