Chop (Ukraine)
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| Chop Чоп |
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| 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 (Template:Rnd/b-1 ft) | ||
| Population (2007) | |||
| • Total | 8,765 | ||
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) | ||
| Postal code | 89502 | ||
| Area code(s) | +380 22 | ||
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| Sister cities | Milove (Ukraine) Sokołów Małopolski, (Poland) Záhony (Hungaria) |
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| 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.
[change] Demography
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 .
[change] Features
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.
[change] Other websites
- Chop in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine
- Chop (Чоп) of Ukraine 1:100,000 topographic maps
- Discovering The Everyday Life in Chop
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