Central Ukraine

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Several oblasts can be referred to as "Central Ukraine":
  Red – always included
  Brown – often included
  Orange – sometimes included

Central Ukraine (Ukrainian: Центральна Україна, romanized: Tsentralna Ukraina) consists of historical regions of left-bank Ukraine and right-bank Ukraine that reference to the Dnieper River. It is situated away from the Black Sea Littoral North and a midstream of the Dnieper River and its basin.

The cities of Central Ukraine are among the oldest in Ukraine. Also in contrast to the southeastern portion of the country, the region is more agricultural with extensive grain and sunflower fields in the heart of Ukraine. Some of the largest cities in Central Ukraine include Kryvyi Rih, Cherkasy, Kropyvnytskyi, Poltava and Kremenchuk.

Politics

Viktor Yuschenko and Yulia Tymoshenko).[2][3][4]

In a poll conducted by Kyiv International Institute of Sociology in the first half of February 2014, only 5.4% of polled in Central Ukraine believed "Ukraine and Russia must unite into a single state", whereas nationwide this percentage was 12.5.[5]

Demographics

Religion

Religion in central Ukraine (2016)[6]

  Eastern Orthodoxy (76.7%)
  Not religious (12.7%)
  Uncertain Christianity (6.5%)
  Roman Catholicism (1.0%)
  Protestantism (1.0%)
  Greek Catholicism (0.4%)
  Judaism (0.3%)
  Islam (0.1%)
  Other religions (0.1%)

According to a 2016 survey of

Muslims. Not religious and other believers not identifying with any of the listed major religious institutions constituted about 12.8% of the population.[6]

Language

Surzhyk, a term for mixed Russian-Ukrainian dialects, is commonly spoken throughout Central Ukraine, though, according to sociological pols, most people self-identify as Ukrainian speakers.[7][8]

See also

References

  1. ^ Центральна виборча комісія України - WWW відображення ІАС "Вибори народних депутатів України 2012" Archived 2012-10-16 at the Wayback Machine
    CEC substitues Tymoshenko, Lutsenko in voting papers Archived 2014-08-13 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ISBN 978-3-525-36912-8
    (page 396)
  3. openDemocracy.net
    (January 3, 2011)
  4. The Jamestown Foundation (17 October 2012)
    UKRAINE: Yushchenko needs Tymoshenko as ally again Archived 2013-05-15 at the Wayback Machine by Taras Kuzio, Oxford Analytica
    (5 October 2007)
  5. ^ How relations between Ukraine and Russia should look like? Public opinion polls’ results, Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (4 March 2014)
  6. ^
    Razumkov Center
    in collaboration with the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches. pp. 27-29.
  7. RATING
    (25 May 2012)
  8. ^ Poll: Ukrainian language prevails at home Archived 2013-07-28 at the Wayback Machine, Ukrinform (7 September 2011)

External links

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