Mykolaiv Oblast

Mykolaiv Oblast Миколаївська область Mykolayivs’ka oblast’
—  Oblast  —
Flag Coat of arms
Nickname(s): Миколаївщина (Mykolayivschyna)
Location of Mykolaiv Oblast (red) within Ukraine (blue)
Country	Ukraine
Admin. center	Mykolaiv
Government
- Governor	Mykola Kruhlov[1] (Party of Regions[1])
- Oblast council	? seats
- Chairperson	Tetiana Vasylivna Demchenko (Party of Regions)
Area
- Total	24,598 km2 (9,497.3 sq mi)
Area rank	Ranked 14th
Population (2006)
- Total	1,217,103
- Rank	Ranked 18th
- Density	49.5/km2 (128.2/sq mi)
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
- Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Postal code	54000-56999
Area code	+380-51
ISO 3166 code	UA-48
Raions	19
Cities of oblast subordinance	5
Cities (total)	9
Towns	20
Villages	900
FIPS 10-4	UP16
Website	www.mykolayiv-oda.gov.ua www.kmu.gov.ua

Mykolaiv Oblast (Ukrainian: Миколаївська область, translit. Mykolayivs’ka oblast’; also referred to as Mykolayivschyna - Ukrainian: Миколаївщина) is an oblast (province) of Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Mykolayiv.

Geography

The Mykolaiv Oblast is located in the southern half of Ukraine. Its area (24,600 km²), comprises about 4.07% of the total area of Ukraine.

The Mykolaiv Oblast borders upon the Odesa Oblast in the west-southwest, the Kirovohrad Oblast in the north, the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast in the northeast, and the Kherson Oblast on the southeast.

On the south the obalst' is also bordered by the Black Sea. On the shoreline, there are several ports and the Mykolaiv International Airport.

Points of interest

The following historic-cultural sites were nominated for the Seven Wonders of Ukraine.

• Olbia
• Dykyỹ sad (Wild Garden)

Demographics

The current estimated population is 1.2 million people (as of 2005). The greater part of the oblast's population resides in urban type settlements (66%), with the remainder residing in agricultural areas. Also, almost 60% of the urban population resides in Mykolayiv, the industrial, cultural and administrative center of Mykolayiv Oblast.

The oblast's population density is one of the lowest in Ukraine – 52 people per 1 km². The oblast' is ranked 18 by the percentage of the population of Ukraine, that the Mykolaiv Oblast contain, which os 2.6%.

Administrative divisions

The Mykolaiv Oblast formed in September 1937. It is subdivided into: 19 raions (administrative districts), and 5 of its cities are designated as separate raions within the oblast.

The following data incorporates the number of each type of administrative divisions of the Mykolaiv Oblast:

• Administrative Center - 1 (Mykolaiv)
• Raions — 19;
• City raions — 4;
• Settlements — 922, including:
  • Villages — 896;
  • Cities/Towns — 26, including:
    • Urban-type settlement — 17;
    • Cities — 9, including:
      • Cities of oblast' subordinance — 5;
      • Cities of raion subordinance — 4;
• Selsovets — 287.

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

Nomenclature

Most of Ukraine's oblasts are named after their capital cities, officially referred to as "oblast centers" (Ukrainian: обласний центр, translit. oblasnyi tsentr). The name of each oblast is a relative adjective, formed by adding a feminine suffix to the name of respective center city: Mykolaiv is the center of the Mykolayivs’ka oblast’ (Mykolaiv Oblast). Most oblasts are also sometimes referred to in a feminine noun form, following the convention of traditional regional place names, ending with the suffix "-shchyna", as is the case with the Mykolaiv Oblast, Mykolayivschyna.

See also: Romanization of Ukrainian

See also

• Subdivisions of Ukraine
• Kherson Governorate

References

1. ^ ^{a b} President appoints 14 regional governors, Interfax-Ukraine (March 18, 2010)

External links

• State Administration of Mykolaiv Oblast - official site (Ukrainian)/(Russian)/(English)
• Information Card of the Region - official site of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine