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Also known as Sums’ka oblast, Sumshchyna

administrative division (oblast) in the north of Ukraine

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Sumy Oblast is an administrative region located in northern Ukraine. It matters as a significant territorial and administrative unit within Ukraine's governmental structure.

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Official website

Сумська обласна державна адміністрація - Головна сторінка

sm.gov.ua

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Wikidata facts

Located in
Ukraine
Capital
Sumy
Population
1411100
Area
23834
Elevation
246
Time zone
UTC+03:00
Shares border with
Bryansk Oblast
Official website
sm.gov.ua
Dialing code
542
Licence plate code
BM
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postal code
42000–42999
Commons category
Sumy Oblast
topic's main category
Category:Sumy Oblast
category for people who died here
Category:Deaths in Sumy Oblast
category for people born here
Category:Births in Sumy Oblast
category of associated people
Category:People from Sumy Oblast
inception
1939-01-10
native label
Сумська область
email address
mailto:[email protected]
phone number
+380-0542-78-27-85
topic has template
Template:Sumy Oblast
number of viewers/listeners
415814
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Encyclopedic overview

Sumy Oblast (Ukrainian: Сумська область, romanized: Sumska oblast), also known as Sumshchyna (Сумщина), is an oblast (province) in northeast Ukraine. The oblast was created in its modern-day form, from the merging of raions from Kharkiv Oblast, Chernihiv Oblast, and Poltava Oblast in 1939 by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. The estimated population is 1,035,772 (2022 estimate).

The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Sumy. Other important cities within the oblast include Konotop, Okhtyrka, Romny, and Shostka. The modern region combines territories of the historical Severia (northern part) and Sloboda Ukraine (southern part). On territory of the Sumy Oblast important centers of Ukrainian culture are located, such as the city of Hlukhiv which served as a hetman residence during the Cossack Hetmanate as well as the cities of Okhtyrka and Sumy which were regional centers of the Sloboda Ukraine.

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

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