Khmelnitsky oblast overview
Khmelnitsky oblast belongs to small regions of Ukraine, with its area 3.4% of the territory of the country. The region is also sometimes spelled like Khmelnytskyi, Khmelnitski and Khmelnytsky. Capital city of the oblast is Khmelnitsky.
Khmelnitsky oblast population is about 1,315,000 (2012); land area is 20,600 sq. km.
Khmelnitsky oblast info
Khmelnitsky region stretches for 220 km from the north to the south and for 120 km from the east to the west. The oblast is located in the southwest of the East European plain in the forest steppe and mixed forest zones of Polissya (Woodland) region.
Khmelnitsky oblast borders on Ternopil, Rivne, Zhitomir, Vinnitsa, and Chernovtsy oblasts. The region is crossed by most important railways and highways of the country.
The largest cities of the region are Khmelnitsky (the oblast’s center) and Kamenets Podolskiy. Other towns of Khmelnitsky oblast are small as to their population.
Khmelnitsky oblast is rich in mineral resources. State importance mineral resources include limestone and clays for manufacture of cement, limestone for the sugar industry. New mineral resource types - graphite, saponite, glauconite, phosphorites, and facing granites - have also been prospected. Khmelnitsky oblast has large resources of medicinal and table water.
Khmelnitsky oblast includes 20 districts; 13 towns, including 5 regional subordination towns (Khmelnitsky, Kamenets Podolskiy, Shepetovka, Slavuta and Netishyn), 24 town type settlements and 1,417 villages.
Khmelnitsky oblast nature
Khmelnitsky oblast landscape
Author: Shabrov Alexander
Khmelnitsky region nature view
Author: Shabrov Alexander
Khmelnitsky oblast nature
Author: Stakhovsky
Khmelnitsky oblast economy
Khmelnitsky oblast industry: power generation, machine-building, food-processing, building materials industry.
Khmelnitsky oblast agriculture: grains, sugar beets, potatoes, vegetables, cattle and poultry farming.