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Kyiv region

Kyiv Oblast
Київська область
Kyivs’ka oblast’
Oblast
Flag of Kyiv Oblast
Flag
Coat of arms of Kyiv Oblast
Coat of arms
Nickname(s): Київщина (Kyivshchyna)
Kiev (oblast) in Ukraine (claims hatched).svg
Country  Ukraine
Administrative center Kiev
Government
 • Governor Oleksandr Horhan
 • Oblast council ? seats
 • Chairperson Mykola Babenko (Petro Poroshenko Bloc)
Area
 • Total 28,131 km2 (10,861 sq mi)
Area rank Ranked 8th
Population (September 1, 2013)
 • Total Increase1,725,082
 • Rank Ranked 10th
Demographics
 • Average salary UAH 4.174(2011)
 • Salary growth +28.73
Time zone EET (UTC+2)
 • Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+3)
Postal code 07-09
Area code +380 44 (Kiev city)
+380 45 (outside Kiev city)
ISO 3166 code UA-32
Vehicle registration AI
Raions 25
Cities (total) 26
• Regional cities 12
Urban-type settlements 30
Villages 1,127
FIPS 10-4 UP26
Website www.kyiv-obl.gov.ua

Kiev Oblast or Kyiv Oblast (Ukrainian: Київська область, translit. Kyivs’ka oblast’; also referred to as KyivshchynaUkrainian: Київщина) is an oblast (province) in central Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Kiev (Ukrainian: Київ, Kyiv), which also serves as the capital of Ukraine. Despite being located in the center of the Kiev Oblast, and hosting the governing bodies of the oblast, Kiev itself is a self-governing city with special status and not under oblast jurisdiction.

Kiev Oblast neither corresponds to nor is limited to the unofficially designated Kiev metropolitan area although it is significantly dependent on the urban economy and transportation of the latter.

The largest city in the oblast is Bila Tserkva.

The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is technically located within the northernmost part of the Kiev Oblast but access to the Zone is prohibited to the public and it is administered separately from the oblast.

Kiev Oblast has a total area of 28,100 km2 (10,849 sq mi) (approximately 35 times the area of Kiev city) and is located in north-central Ukraine. On the west it borders the Zhytomyr Oblast, on the Southwest – Vinnytsia Oblast, on the South – Cherkasy Oblast, on the Southeast – Poltava Oblast, on the East and Northeast – Chernihiv Oblast, and on the North – Homyel Voblasts of Belarus.


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