Zaporizhia (Ukrainian: Запоріжжя, Zaporizhzhia; Russian: Запоро́жье, Zaporozhye) is a historical region of Ukraine. It is situated about the Dnieper River, below the Dnieper rapids, hence the name, translated as "territory beyond the rapids". During the 16th to 18th centuries it was an independent cossack territory with the center at Zaporizhian Sich. It corresponds to modern Dnipropetrovs'ka oblast', major parts of Zaporiz'ka oblast' and Kirovohrads'ka oblast', as well as parts of Khersons'ka oblast' and Donets'ka oblast' of Ukraine.
The largest number of urban river beaches is concentrated in the territory of Kharkiv (34%) and Donetsk (11%) regions, and urban sea beaches in the territory of the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea (64%) and in Odesa Region (16%).
Water in the zone of beaches in Donetsk and Odesa regions with 25.4% of all health-restoring establishments with beaches of Ukraine and 29.7% of establishments with sea beaches, is characterized by high pollution indices.
A decrease of the level of bacterial pollution was observed in Donetsk, Vinnytsia, Dniepropetrovsk, Lviv, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv, Rivne, Khmelnytskyi, Cherkasy and Chernivtsi regions and in Sevastopol and Kyiv; an increase was observed in Ivano-Frankivsk, Odesa, Chernigiv, Kyiv, Lugansk, Poltava, Sumy and Kharkiv regions and in the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea.
The total number of the actual population of the Zaporizhia region, according to the data of the All-Ukrainian census of the population ‘2001, accounted for 1929.2 thousand persons.
Region is characterized by high density of population, according to the data of the All-Ukrainian census of the population it accounted for 71 persons per sq.
Gradual decline of quantity present population in a region was begun with a 1994
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