Donetsk Oblast
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| Donetsk Oblast Донецька область | |
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| Missing image Map_of_Ukraine_political_simple_Oblast_Donezk.png Location of Donetsk oblast | |
| Missing image Donetsk_oblast_detail_map.png Detailed map of Donetsk Oblast | |
| Population Total (2004) Density | 4,703,445 178/km² |
| Area | 26,500 km² |
| Raions | 18 |
| Cities | 52 |
| City districts | 21 |
| Urban localities | 131 |
| Villages | 1,124 |
Donetsk Oblast (Ukrainian: Донецька область, Donets’ka oblast’ or Донеччина, Donechchyna) is an oblast (province) of eastern Ukraine. Its capital is Donetsk. Historically, the province is an important part of the Donbas region.
The oblast's area of 26,500 km² is equivalent to 4.4% of the territory of Ukraine. Its population (as of 2004) is 4.7 million constitutes 10% of the overall Ukrainian population, making it the most populous and most densely populated region of the country. Its large population is due to the presence of several big industrial cities and numerous villages agglomerated around them (see urbanization).
A referendum which was to be held on 2005-01-09 to determine whether this oblast shall be granted the status of an autonomous republic inside Ukraine was cancelled after the rerun of the 2004 presidential elections.
Important cities include:
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| oblasts: | Cherkasy | Chernihiv | Chernivtsi | Dnipropetrovsk | Donetsk | Ivano-Frankivsk | Kharkiv | Kherson | Khmelnytskyi | Kirovohrad | Kiev | Luhansk | Lviv | Mykolaiv | Odessa | Poltava | Rivne | Sumy | Ternopil | Vinnytsia | Volyn | Zakarpattia | Zaporizhia | Zhytomyr | ||
| autonomous republic: | Crimea | ||
| cities with special status: | Kiev | Sevastopol | ||
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