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Kamianets-Podilskyi

Kamianets-Podilskyi
Кам'янець-Подільський
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Coat of arms of Kamianets-Podilskyi
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Kamianets-Podilskyi is located in Khmelnytskyi Oblast
Kamianets-Podilskyi
Kamianets-Podilskyi
Kamianets-Podilskyi is located in Ukraine
Kamianets-Podilskyi
Kamianets-Podilskyi
Location in Ukraine
Coordinates: 48°41′00″N 26°35′00″E / 48.68333°N 26.58333°E / 48.68333; 26.58333
Country  Ukraine
Oblast Flag of Khmelnytskyi Oblast.svg 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.


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