The capital city of Poltava oblast: Poltava.
Poltava oblast is an administrative and economic territorial unit. The oblast was formed on September 22, 1937. Poltava region is distributed in a forest/steppe zone. Forests cover 7.4% of the territory. The capital city is Poltava.
Poltava oblast population is about 1,500,000 (2010); land area is 28,748 sq. km.
Poltava oblast territory is crossed by 89 rivers with a total length of 5453 km. Dnepr river is the main water artery of Poltava oblast. All the rivers (Vorksla, Sula, Oril’ being the longest ones) belong to the Dnepr basin and are its left tributaries. In the south and southwest Poltava oblast is washed by waters of Kremenchug and Dnieprodzerzhinsk water reservoirs.
There are a lot of artificial water bodies and lakes in Poltava oblast of Ukraine. Their total area reaches 21 thousand hectares. The railway lines and developed network of motor roads cross Poltava oblast territory. The city of Poltava is the regional center with a population of 300,000 people.
Poltava oblast includes 26 administrative districts and cities of regional subordination (the largest cities are Poltava, Kremenchug, Lubny, Komsomolsk and Myrhorod), 17 towns and 1009 villages.
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Poltava oblast industry: oil-extraction, food-processing, machine-building, ferrous metallurgy.
Poltava oblast agriculture: grains, sugar beets, sunflower seeds, potatoes, vegetables; cattle and poultry farming.
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