Zakarpats'ka Oblast' Закарпатська область
Population Total (2004) Density Urban	1,249,663 98/km² 37.0%
Area	12,800 km²
Raions	13
Cities	10
City districts	n/a
Urban localities	20
Villages	579

Districts of Zakarpattia Oblast

House of the Council of Zakarpattia Oblast in Uzhhorod with Taras Shevchenko Monument

Entrance from Ivano-Frankivsk on route A 265

Zakarpattia Oblast or Transcarpathian Oblast (Ukrainian: Закарпатська область, Zakarpats'ka oblast' or Закарпаття, Zakarpattia, also transliterated Zakarpattya; Hungarian: Kárpátalja) is an oblast (province) of Ukraine. Its capital is Uzhhorod. Other important cities are Mukacheve and Chop (the border town housing various transportation infrastructure). Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1181x825, 16 KB) Image (Map) made by Sven Teschke, Germany --Steschke 09:12, 2004 Nov 8 (UTC) see also: english version: Image:Map_of_Ukraine_political_enwiki. ... Image File history File links Map of Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine Adapted from http://www. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. ... See rayon for the textile made of processed cellulose. ... Image File history File links Ukraine Oblast Transcarpathia / Zarkarpatsky with Rajon Borders File links The following pages link to this file: Zakarpattia Oblast Categories: Ukraine maps ... Image File history File links Ukraine Oblast Transcarpathia / Zarkarpatsky with Rajon Borders File links The following pages link to this file: Zakarpattia Oblast Categories: Ukraine maps ... Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Ivano-Frankivsk (Ukrainian: Івано-Франківськ/Ivano-Frankivsk; Станиславів/Stanyslaviv before 1962; Polish: StanisÅ‚awów 14th century - 1939; Russian: Ivano-Frankovsk; German: Stanislau (before World War I); Yiddish: סטאַניסלוו/Stanislev) is a city in Ukraine, center of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in the west of the country. ... An oblast (Slavonian verbalism or term, Czech: oblast, Slovak: oblasÅ¥, Russian, Ukrainian: о́бласть, Bulgarian: о́бласт) English equivalent area, province or zone. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Mukacheve coat of arms Mukacheve (Ukrainian: Мукачеве (Mukacheve), Ruthenian: Мукачів (Mukachiv), Russian: Мукачево (Mukachevo), Hungarian: Munkács, Slovak and Czech: Mukačevo, German: Munkatsch, Yiddish: Munkacz or Minkatsh) is a city in Zakarpattia Oblast of southwestern Ukraine. ... Chop (Ukrainian Чоп) is a city in the Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine. ...

Earlier history of the area is elaborated at Carpathian Ruthenia, a former name for the geographic region. Carpathian Ruthenia (Ukrainian Карпатська Русь, Karpatska Rus ) or Carpatho-Ukraine or Carpathian Ukraine is a name for a small part of Central Europe that was part of the Kingdom of Hungary (since 1526 under Habsburg rule). ...

Although ethnic Ukrainians (rather Ruthenians) are in majority here, other ethnic groups are relatively numerous in Zakarpattia. The largest of those are Hungarians, Romanians, Russians and Slovaks. Their languages and culture are respected by providing national school education, clubs etc. Zakarpattia is home to approximately 25,000 ethnic Roma (otherwise known as gypsies, the largest population of Roma in Ukraine). In Berehevo works the first Hungarian College in Ukraine: II. Rákoczi Ferenc College. Flag of the Rusyns Rusyns, also called Ruthenians, Ruthenes, Rusins, Rysins, Carpatho-Rusins, and Russniaks, are a modern group of ethnic groups that speak the Rusyn language and are descended from the minority of Ruthenians who did not adopt a Ukrainian national identity and become Ukrainians in the nineteenth and... The Roma people (singular Rom; sometimes Rroma, Rrom), along with the closely related Sinti people, are commonly known as Gypsies in English. ... The Rroma people (pronounced rahma, singular Rrom) along with the closely related Sinti people are commonly known as Gypsies. ...

The area of the region is 12,800 km²; its population (as of 2004-05-01) is 1.2 million people. 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). ...

Zakarpattia's economy depends mostly on trans-border trade, vinery and forestry. Border has several different, but related meanings: // Generic borders A border can consist of a margin around the edge of something, such as a lawn, garden, photograph, or sheet of paper. ... A decidous beech forest in Slovenia. ...

See also

• Carpathian Ruthenia
• Ruthenians and Ukrainians in Czechoslovakia (1918-1938)
• Carpatho-Ukraine

Carpathian Ruthenia (Ukrainian Карпатська Русь, Karpatska Rus ) or Carpatho-Ukraine or Carpathian Ukraine is a name for a small part of Central Europe that was part of the Kingdom of Hungary (since 1526 under Habsburg rule). ... This article is part of the article Czechoslovakia. ... Carpatho-Ukraine (Ukrainian: , Karpats’ka Ukrayina) was an autonomous region within Czechoslovakia from late 1938 to March 15, 1939. ...

Subdivisions 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