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Kharkiv Oblast

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Kharkiv Oblast

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Also known as Kharkivshchyna, Kharkiv Oblast (Ukraine), Kharkiv

oblast of Ukraine

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Kharkiv Oblast is a region in northeastern Ukraine that serves as an important administrative and economic center for the country. It matters because it is one of Ukraine's largest and most populous regions, containing significant industrial, cultural, and strategic importance to the nation.

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Kharkiv Oblast (Ukrainian: Харківська область, romanized: Kharkivska oblast, Russian: Харьковская область, romanized: Kharkovskaya oblast), also referred to as Kharkivshchyna (Ukrainian: Харківщина), is an oblast (province) in eastern Ukraine.

Kharkiv borders Luhansk Oblast to the east, Donetsk Oblast to the southeast, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast to the southwest, Poltava Oblast to the west, Sumy Oblast to the northwest and Russia's Belgorod Oblast to the north. Its area is 31,400 square kilometres (12,100 sq mi), or 5.2% of the total territory of Ukraine.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kharkiv Oblast” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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