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Encyclopedia > Sumy Oblast
Sums'ka Oblast'
Сумська область
Modern emblem of Sums'ka Oblast
Location of Sumy Oblast
Detailed map of Sumy Oblast
Population
Total (2004)
Density
Urban		  
1,255,866
53/km²
65.3%
Area 23,800 km²
Raions 18
Cities 15
City districts 2
Urban localities 20
Villages 1,492

Sumy Oblast (Сумська область, Sums’ka oblast’ or Сумщина, Sumshchyna in Ukrainian) is an oblast (province) in the north-east of Ukraine. Its administrative center is Sumy. Image File history File links Sumy-oblast-COA.PNG File links The following pages link to this file: Sumy Hlukhiv Sumy Oblast Putyvl Shostka Okhtyrka Konotop Romny Template:Cities in Sumy Oblast Trostyanets ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1181x825, 16 KB) Map of Ukraine with highlighted Oblast made by Sven Teschke, Germany, 2004 --Steschke 09:33, 2004 Nov 8 (UTC) see also: english version: Image:Map_of_Ukraine_political_enwiki. ... Image File history File links Map of Sumy Oblast, Ukraine Adapted from http://www. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... World map of the population density in 2006 Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. ... See rayon for the textile made of processed cellulose. ... Oblast (Czech: oblast, Slovak: oblasÅ¥, Russian and Ukrainian: , Belarusian: , Bulgarian: о́бласт) refers to a subnational entity in some countries. ... 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. ... Sumy is a town in the Ukraine Sumy region. ...


The area of the region is 23,800 km², and the population (as of 2004-05-01) is 1.3 million. 2004 (MMIV) was 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). ...


The oblast was formed in 1939. 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...


People from Sums'ka oblast'

Viktor Andriyovych Yushchenko (Ukrainian: Віктор Андрійович Ющенко) (born 23 February 1954) is the President of Ukraine. ... Sydor Kovpak Sydir Artemovych Kovpak (Ukrainian: ; Russian: , Sidor Artyomovich Kovpak) (June 7, 1887 – December 11, 1967) was a prominent Soviet partisan leader in Ukraine. ...

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Subdivisions of Ukraine Flag of Ukraine
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

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Sumy Ukrainian: Суми, Russian: Сумы is a city on the Psel River in the Ukraine, and the capital of the Sumy Oblast.
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