Chop (Ukraine)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Chop Чоп |
|||
|---|---|---|---|
|
|||
| Coordinates: 48°25′50″N 22°12′00″E / 48.43056°N 22.2°ECoordinates: 48°25′50″N 22°12′00″E / 48.43056°N 22.2°E | |||
| Country | Ukraine | ||
| Oblast | Chop City Municipality | ||
| Raion | Municipality | ||
| Government | |||
| • Mayor | Galina Car | ||
| Elevation | 101-108 m (−253.3 ft) | ||
| Population (2007) | |||
| • Total | 8,765 | ||
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) | ||
| Postal code | 89502 | ||
| Area code(s) | +380 22 | ||
| License plate | |||
| Sister cities | Milove (Ukraine) Sokołów Małopolski, (Poland) Záhony (Hungaria) |
||
| Website | http://chop.org.ua/ | ||
Chop (Ukrainian: Чоп, Hungarian: Csap, Slovak: Čop) is a city found in the Zakarpattia Oblast (province) of western Ukraine, near the borders of Slovakia and Hungary. It is separated from the Hungarian town of Záhony by the river Tisza.
Demography [change]
According to the Ukrainian national census, Chop had a population in 2001 of 8,919, of whom 40% were Ukrainians, 39.2% ethnic Hungarians and 20.8% Gypsies, Russians, Slovaks, Belarusians, Jews .
Features [change]
Chop is an important railway junction in Ukraine where the Lviv-Stryi-Budapest railway line meets the Lviv-Uzhgorod-Košice line. Near Chop, there are also international railway and highway border crossings to Hungary and Slovakia and also to the westernmost point of Ukraine.
Other websites [change]
- Chop in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine
- Chop (Чоп) of Ukraine 1:100,000 topographic maps
- Discovering The Everyday Life in Chop
 |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Chop, Ukraine |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
