Kherson Oblast

Kherson Oblast Херсонська область Khersons’ka oblast’
Oblast
Flag Coat of arms
Nickname(s): Херсонщина (Khersonshchyna)
Country	Ukraine
Administrative center	Kherson
Government
• Governor	Andriy Hordeyev[1] (Petro Poroshenko Bloc "Solidarity"[1])
Area
• Total	28,461 km2 (10,989 sq mi)
Population (2015)
• Total	1,063,803[2]
• Rank	Ranked 22nd
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Area code	+380-55
ISO 3166 code	UA-65
Vehicle registration	ВT
Raions	18
Cities (total)	9
• Regional cities	3
Urban-type settlements	30
Villages	658
FIPS 10-4	UP08
Website	www.oda.kherson.ua

Kherson Oblast (Ukrainian: Херсонська область, translit. Khersons’ka oblast’; also referred to as Khersonshchyna – Ukrainian: Херсонщина) is an oblast (province) in southern Ukraine, just north of Crimea. Its administrative center is Kherson. The area of the region is 28,461 km², its population (as of 1 January 2012) is 1,083,367.^[3]

Important cities in the oblast include:

• Kherson (capital)
• Kakhovka
• Nova Kakhovka

Geography

The Kherson Oblast is bordered by the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on the north, the Black Sea and the disputed region of Crimea on the south, the Mykolayiv Oblast on the west, and the Azov Sea and the Zaporizhzhia Oblast on the east.

The Dnieper River runs through the oblast which includes the Kakhovka Reservoir.

The oblast includes (within Henichesk Raion) the northern portion of the Arabat Spit, a thin strip of land between the brackish Syvash and the Sea of Azov that is geographically part of the Crimean Peninsula. Due to Russia gaining de facto control of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in 2014 the southern areas of Kherson are the only parts of the Crimean Peninsula under direct Ukrainian control.

Administrative divisions

The Kherson Oblast is administratively subdivided into 18 raions (districts) and 3 municipalities which are directly subordinate to the oblast government - Kherson (administrative center of the oblast), Nova Kakhovka, and Kakhovka. The Kherson municipality is subdivided into 3 urban districts. All information below is current as of 2015^[2]

.* Note: Though the administrative center of the rayon is housed in the city/town that its named after, cities do not answer to the rayon authorities only towns do; instead they are directly subordinated to the oblast government and therefore are not counted as part of rayon statistics.

At a lower level of administration, these district-level administrations are subdivided into:

• Settlements – 697, including:
  • Villages – 658;
  • Cities/Towns – 36, including:
    • Cities of raion subordinance – 6 (Beryslav, Henichesk, Hola Prystan, Skadovsk, Tavriisk and Oleshky);
    • Urban-type settlement – 30;
• Selsovets – 260.

The local administration of the oblast' is controlled by the Kherson Oblast Rada. The governor of the oblast is the Kherson Oblast Rada speaker, appointed by the President of Ukraine.

Kherson Oblast State Administration

Demographics

The population of the oblast is 1,083,367 (2012), which is 2.4% of the total population of Ukraine. It is also ranked 21st by its population. The population density is 38 per km².

About 61.5% or 745,400 people live in urban areas of the Oblast and 38.5% or 467,600 people live in agricultural centers/villages. Men make up 46.7% or 565,400 people of the population, women make up 53.3% or 644,600 people, and pensioners make up 26.2% or 317,400 people of the Oblast population.

Ukrainian National Census (2001):

• Ukrainians – 82.0%
• Russians – 14.1%
• Belarusians – 0.7%
• Crimean Tatars – 0.5%
• Others – 2.7%

Age structure

0-14 years: 15.1% (male 83,397/female 79,303)

15-64 years: 70.5% (male 364,907/female 393,933)

65 years and over: 14.4% (male 50,404/female 104,856) (2013 official)

Median age

total: 39.5 years

male: 36.2 years

female: 42.7 years (2013 official)

Attractions

Typical agricultural landscape of Ukraine, Kherson Oblast

• Askania-Nova
• Legendary tachanka monument
• Kurhan cemetery
• Shovkunek Art museum
• Saint-Yekaterynian Temple

Public opinion

During the 1991 referendum, 90.13% of votes in Kherson Oblast were in favor of the Declaration of Independence of Ukraine. A survey conducted in December 2014 by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology found 1% of the oblast's population supported their region joining Russia, 94.9% did not support the idea, and the rest were undecided or did not respond.^[4]

See also

• Subdivisions of Ukraine
• Kherson Governorate

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kherson Oblast.

• Portal of Kherson
• Site of Kherson nationalists
• State Administration of Kherson Region – official site (Ukrainian)
• Information Card of the Region – official site of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
• Promo-video about Kherson and South of Ukraine - official YouTube channel of The center of tourism and adventures "ХерсON"

Administrative divisions of Kherson Oblast
Administrative center: Kherson
Raions	Beryslav Bilozerka Chaplynka Henichesk Hola Prystan Hornostaivka Ivanivka Kakhovka Kalanchak Novotroitske Novovorontsovka Nyzhni Sirohozy Oleshky Skadovsk Velyka Lepetykha Velyka Oleksandrivka Verkhniy Rohachyk Vysokopillia
Cities	Regional Hola Prystan Kakhovka Kherson Nova Kakhovka District Beryslav Henichesk Oleshky Skadovsk Tavriysk
Urban-type settlements Category:Kherson Oblast

Administrative divisions of Ukraine
Capital: Kiev
Oblasts	Cherkasy Chernihiv Chernivtsi Dnipropetrovsk Donetsk Ivano-Frankivsk Kharkiv Kherson Khmelnytskyi Kiev Kirovohrad Luhansk Lviv Mykolaiv Odessa Poltava Rivne Sumy Ternopil Vinnytsia Volyn Zakarpattia Zaporizhia Zhytomyr
Cities with special status	Kiev Sevastopol1
Autonomous republic	Crimea1
Administrative centers	Cherkasy Chernihiv Chernivtsi Dnipropetrovsk Donetsk Ivano-Frankivsk Kharkiv Kherson Khmelnytskyi Kiev Kropyvnytskyi Luhansk Lutsk Lviv Mykolaiv Odessa Poltava Rivne Sevastopol Simferopol Sumy Ternopil Uzhhorod Vinnytsia Zaporizhia Zhytomyr
1Claimed and controlled by Russia as the Republic of Crimea and the Federal City of Sevastopol

		Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
	Mykolaiv Oblast Black Sea Odessa Oblast		Zaporizhia Oblast
		Kherson Oblast
	Black Sea	Republic of Crimea

Coordinates: 46°30′N 34°00′E / 46.500°N 34.000°E / 46.500; 34.000