Chop, Ukraine

Chop, Ukraine
Chop
Чоп

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Chop is located in Ukraine
Chop
Location of Chop
Coordinates: 48°25′50″N 22°12′00″E / 48.43056°N 22.2°E / 48.43056; 22.2
Country Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine
Oblast Coat of Arms of Transcarpathian Oblast.png Zakarpattia Oblast
Raion Chop Municipality
Government
 - Mayor Galina Car
Elevation 101-108 m (-253 ft)
Population (2007)
 - Total 8,765
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 - Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code 89502
Area code(s) +380 22
License plate
Sister cities Milove (Ukraine)
Sokołów Małopolski, (Poland)
Záhony (Hungaria)
Website http://chop.org.ua/

Chop (Ukrainian: Чоп, Hungarian: Csap, Slovak: Čop) is a city located in the Zakarpattia Oblast (province) of western Ukraine, near the borders of Slovakia and Hungary. It is separated from the Hungarian town of Záhony by the river Tisza, and the city itself is designated as a separate raion (district) within the oblast.

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Demography

According to the Ukrainian national census, Chop had a population in 2001 of 8,919, of whom 40% were Ukrainians, 39.2% ethnic Hungarians and 20.8% Gypsies, Russians, Slovaks, Belarusians, and Jews.

Features

Passport stamps from Chop.
Old 1982 USSR passport stamps from the same crossing.

Chop is an important railway junction in Ukraine where the Lviv-Stryi-Budapest railway line meets the Lviv-Uzhgorod-Košice line. There is also a line running eastwards to Romania via Korolevo and Halmeu although there are currently no regular passenger services.

Near Chop, there are also international railway and highway border crossings to Hungary and Slovakia and also to the westernmost point of Ukraine. The first town across the border in Slovakia is Čierna nad Tisou while in Hungary, the first city is Záhony.

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Coordinates: 48°26′N 22°12′E / 48.433°N 22.2°E / 48.433; 22.2



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