Dnipro
Dnipro (Дніпро) | |
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 Skyline o Dnipro | |
 Banner  Coat airms | |
  Dnipro (Дніпро) Map o Ukraine wi Dnipro heichlichtit  Dnipro (Дніпро) Dnipro (Дніпро) (Dnipropetrovsk Oblast) | |
| Coordinates: 48°27′0″N 34°59′0″E / 48.45000°N 34.98333°ECoordinates: 48°27′0″N 34°59′0″E / 48.45000°N 34.98333°E | |
| Kintra |  Ukraine |
| Oblast |  Dnipropetrovsk Oblast |
| Raion | Dnipro Raion |
| Foondit | 1776 |
| Raions | 8
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| Govrenment | |
| • Mayor | Borys Albertovych Filatov |
| Area | |
| • Total | 405 km2 (156 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 155 m (509 ft) |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
| • Total | 1,001,612 |
| • Density | 2486/km2 (6,440/sq mi) |
| Postal code | 49000 |
| Area code(s) | +380 56(2) |
| Sister ceeties | Vilnius, Durham Region, Samara, Tashkent, Xi'an, Herzliya, Žilina, Saloniki, Wałbrzych |
| Website | gorod.dp.ua |
Dnipro (Ukrainian: Дніпро [dnʲipro]) or Dnepr (Roushie: Днепр) formerly Yekaterinoslav (Roushie: Екатеринослав, Ukrainian: Катеринослав, translit. Katerynoslav, an aa Catharinoslav on auld maps[2]) is Ukraine's third lairgest ceety wi 1.1 million indwallers.[3] It is locatit sootheast o Ukraine's caipital Kiev on the Dnieper River, in the sooth-central region o the kintra. Dnipro is the admeenistrative center o the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (province).
Athin the Dnipro metropolitan aurie thare are 1,860,000 fowk (2001).[4]
A vital industrial centre o Ukraine, Dnipro wis ane o the key centers o the nuclear, airms, an space industries o the umwhile Soviet Union. In pairticular, it is hame tae Yuzhmash, a major space an ballistic missile designer an manufacturer. Acause o its military industry, the ceety wis a closed ceety[5] til the 1990s.
Dnipro haes a heichlie-developit public transportation seestem, includin the Dnipro Metro, which consists o ane metro line wi a tot o 6 stations.
Twin touns — Sister ceeties
[eedit | eedit soorce]The ceety o Dnipro is twinned wi:
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Dnipro region, statistics Archived 2013-10-20 at the Wayback Machine (in Ukrainian)
- ↑ English map of 1820
- ↑ Ukrcensus.gov.ua — City Archived 2006-01-09 at the Wayback Machine URL accessed on 8 March 2007
- ↑ uk.wikipedia.org URL accessed on 19 August 2007
- ↑ A closed ceety does no allou foreigners inside athoot offeecial permission.
- ↑ "Twin-cities of Azerbaijan". Azerbaijans.com. Retrieved 9 August 2013.
- ↑ "Kontakty partnerskie Miasta Szczecin". Urząd Miasta Szczecin (in Polish). Archived frae the original on 18 August 2012. Retrieved 29 Julie 2013.CS1 maint: unrecognised leid (link)
- ↑ "Twinning Cities". © 2008 City of Thessaloniki. Archived frae the original on 31 Mairch 2009. Retrieved 4 Januar 2009.
- ↑ "Žilina – oficiálne stránky mesta: Partnerské mestá Žiliny (Žilina: Official Partner Cities)". © 2008 MaM Multimedia, s.r.o.. Archived frae the original on 24 September 2017. Retrieved 4 Januar 2009.
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