Zaporizhia Oblast
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| Zaporiz'ka oblast' Запорізька область | |
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| Missing image Map_of_Ukraine_political_simple_Oblast_Saporischja.png Location of Zaporizhia oblast | |
| Missing image Zaporizhia_oblast_detail_map.png Detailed map of Zaporizhia Oblast | |
| Population Total (2004) Density | 2,423,275 73/km² |
| Area | 27,200 km² |
| Raions | 20 |
| Cities | 14 |
| City districts | 7 |
| Urban localities | 23 |
| Villages | 920 |
Zaporizhia Oblast (Запорізька область, Zaporiz'ka oblast’ or Запоріжщина, Zaporizhchyna in Ukrainian) is an oblast (province) of southern Ukraine. Its capital is Zaporizhzhia.
This oblast is an important part of Ukraine's industry and agriculture.
The area of the province is 27,200 km²; its population (as of 2004-05-01) is 1.9 million.
Important cities include:
- Berdians'k
- Enerhodar - home for the Zaporiz'ka nuclear power plant
- Melitopol'
- Zaporizhzhia
From the 15th century to the 18th century, the northern parts of the province belonged to the Zaporizhian Sich - a self-governed military republic of the Ukrainian Cossacks.
| Subdivisions of Ukraine | 
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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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