Kamianets-Podilskyi Кам'янець-Подільський |
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Location in Ukraine | |||
Coordinates: 48°41′00″N 26°35′00″E / 48.68333°N 26.58333°E | |||
Country | Ukraine | ||
Oblast | Khmelnytskyi Oblast | ||
Raion | Kamyanets-Podilskyi Raion | ||
Founded | 1062 (first mentioned) | ||
City rights | 1432 | ||
Government | |||
• Mayor | Mikhaylo Simashkevich | ||
Area | |||
• Total | 27,871 km2 (10,761 sq mi) | ||
Population (2011) | |||
• Total | 103,036 | ||
• Density | 3,550/km2 (9,200/sq mi) | ||
Time zone | EET (UTC+2) | ||
• Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) | ||
Postal code | 32300—32318 | ||
Area code(s) | +380-3849 | ||
Sister cities | Targówek, Kraków, Głogów, Przemyśl, Kalisz, Sanok, Gniew, Zawiercie, Ejmiatsin, Suzhou, Ukmergė, Polatsk, Edineţ, Zalău, Dolný Kubín, Ponte Lambro, Michurinsk |
Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukrainian: Ка́м'яне́ць-Поді́льський, translit. Kám'ianets'-Podíl's’kyi or Kamyanets-Podilsky, Polish: Kamieniec Podolski, Romanian: Camenița, Russian: Каменец-Подольский, translit. Kamenets-Podolskiy; Yiddish: קאמענעץ־פאדאלסק) (see Nomenclature section below for more names) is a city on the Smotrych River in western Ukraine, to the north-east of Chernivtsi.
Formerly the administrative center of the Khmelnytskyi Oblast, the city is now the administrative center of the Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion (district) within the Khmelnytskyi Oblast (province), after the administrative center of the oblast was moved from the city of Kamianets-Podilskyi to the city of Khmelnytskyi in 1941. The city itself is also designated as a separate district within the region.
The current estimated population is around 101,728 (2015).
The first part of the city's dual name originates from kamin' (Ukrainian: камiнь) or kamen, meaning "stone" in the Old East Slavic language. The second part of the name relates to the historic region of Podolia (Ukrainian: Подíлля, Polish: Podole) of which Kamianets-Podilskyi is considered to be the historic capital.