Rivne Oblast

Infobox Ukrainian oblast
Name = Rivne Oblast
UkrainianName = Рівненська область
TransliteratedName = Rivnens’ka oblast’




Ukraine

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Administrative_center = Rivne
GovernorName = Viktor Matchuk
GovernorParty = Our Ukraine
ChairmanName = Oleksandr Yuriyovych Danil'chuk
ChairmanParty = All-Ukrainian Union Fatherland
CouncilSeats = 80
Raions = 16
CityRaions = 4
Cities = 11
CMTs = 16
Villages = 1,003
AreaRank = 22^nd
TotalArea = 20,047
LandArea = ?
WaterArea = ?
PercentWater = ?
PopulationYear = 2006
Population_rank = ?
Population = 1,154,682
Density = 58
Population_Growth = ?
SalaryYear = 2006
Salary_rank = 15^th
Salary = 846 hryvnias
Salary_Growth = ?
PostalAbbreviation = 33xxx-35xxx
PostalCodePrefix = List of postal codes#U-Z
ISOCode =
FIPSRegionCode =
PhoneCode = +380-36
Website = http://www.rv.gov.ua

Rivne Oblast ( _uk. Рівненська область, translit. "Rivnens’ka oblast’"; also referred to as Rivnenshchyna - " _uk. Рівненщина") is an oblast (province) of Ukraine. Its administrative center is Rivne.

The area of the region is 20,100 km²; its population (as of 2004-05-01) is 1.2 million. A nuclear power plant is located in the oblast.

Points of Interest

The following historic-cultural sites were nominated for the Seven Wonders of Ukraine.
* Ostroh Castle
* Troitsk monastery (Korec)
* Dubno Castle

Geography

History

The Rivne Oblast was created as part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic on December 4, 1939.

ubdivisions

The Rivne Oblast is administratively subdivided into 16 raions (districts) as well as 4 cities (municipalities) which are directly subordinate to the oblast government: Dubno, Kuznetsovsk, Ostroh, and the administrative center of the oblast, Rivne.

Nomenclature

Most of Ukraine's oblasts are named after their capital cities, officially referred to as "oblast centers" ( _uk. 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: "Rivne" is the center of the "Rivnens’ka oblast’" (Rivne 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 Rivne Oblast, "Rivnenshchyna".

ee also

* Subdivisions of Ukraine
* [http://www.myrivne.org - Web-site of Rivne]