Dnipro

Dnipro (Дніпро)
Skyline o Dnipro
Skyline o Dnipro
Banner o Dnipro (Дніпро)
Banner
Coat of airms o Dnipro (Дніпро)
Coat airms
Map o Ukraine wi Dnipro heichlichtit
Map o Ukraine wi Dnipro heichlichtit
Coordinates: 48°27′0″N 34°59′0″E / 48.45000°N 34.98333°E / 48.45000; 34.98333Coordinates: 48°27′0″N 34°59′0″E / 48.45000°N 34.98333°E / 48.45000; 34.98333
Kintra Ukraine
Oblast Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Ceety Municipality Dnipro
Foondit1776
Raions
Govrenment
 • MayorIvan Ivanovych Kulichenko[1]
Area
 • Total405 km2 (156 sq mi)
Elevation
155 m (509 ft)
Population
 (2011)[2]
 • Total1,001,612
 • Density2486/km2 (6,440/sq mi)
Postal code
49000
Area code(s)+380 56(2)
Sister ceetiesVilnius, Durham Region, Samara, Tashkent, Xi'an, Herzliya, Žilina, Saloniki, Wałbrzych
Websitegorod.dp.ua

Dnipro (Ukrainian: Дніпро [dnʲipro]) or Dnepr (Roushie: Днепр) formerly Yekaterinoslav (Roushie: Екатеринослав, Ukrainian: Катеринослав, translit. Katerynoslav, an aa Catharinoslav on auld maps[3]) is Ukraine's third lairgest ceety wi 1.1 million indwallers.[4] 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).[5]

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[6] 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

Relatit page: Leet o twin touns an sister ceeties in Ukraine

The ceety o Dnipro is twinned wi:

References

  1. ↑ "Dnipro mayors personal blog". Archived frae the original on 25 September 2014. Retrieved 24 Mairch 2014.
  2. ↑ Dnipro region, statistics (in Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ English map of 1820
  4. ↑ Ukrcensus.gov.ua — City Archived 2006-01-09 at the Wayback Machine URL accessed on 8 March 2007
  5. ↑ uk.wikipedia.org URL accessed on 19 August 2007
  6. ↑ A closed ceety does no allou foreigners inside athoot offeecial permission.
  7. ↑ "Twin-cities of Azerbaijan". Azerbaijans.com. Retrieved 9 August 2013.
  8. ↑ "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)
  9. ↑ "Twinning Cities". © 2008 City of Thessaloniki. Archived frae the original on 31 Mairch 2009. Retrieved 4 Januar 2009.
  10. ↑ "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.