Kherson Oblast


Kherson Oblast is an oblast in southern Ukraine, just north of Crimea. Its administrative center is Kherson. The area of the region is 28,461 km². Population: This is considered to be the 'fruit basket' of the country, as many of the oblast's agricultural production is dispersed throughout the country, with production peaking during the summer months.
Important cities in the oblast include:
The Kherson Oblast is bordered by Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on the north, the Black Sea and the disputed region of Crimea on the south, Mykolaiv Oblast on the west, and the Azov Sea and Zaporizhzhia Oblast on the east.
The Dnieper River runs through the oblast which includes the Kakhovka Reservoir.
The oblast includes the northern portion of the Arabat Spit, a thin strip of land between the brackish Syvash and the Sea of Azov that is geographically part of the Crimean Peninsula. Due to Russia gaining de facto control of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in 2014 the southern areas of Kherson are the only parts of the Crimean Peninsula under direct Ukrainian control.

Administrative divisions

The Kherson Oblast is administratively subdivided into 18 raions and 3 municipalities which are directly subordinate to the oblast government - Kherson, Nova Kakhovka, and Kakhovka. The Kherson municipality is subdivided into 3 urban districts. All information below is current as of 2015
NameUkrainian nameArea
Population
2015		Admin.centerUrban Population Only
KhersonХерсон 423333,737Kherson322,260
Hola PrystanГола Пристань 914,883Hola Prystan14,568
Nova KakhovkaНова Каховкa 22368,205Nova Kakhovka62,128
KakhovkaКаховкa1636,958Kakhovka36,958
Beryslav RaionБериславський 1,72148,025Beryslav16,682
Bilozerka RaionБілозерський 1,53466,564Bilozerka9,739
Chaplynka RaionЧаплинський 1,72235,219Chaplynka12,638
Henichesk RaionГенічеський 3,00859,991Henichesk33,748
Hola Prystan RaionГолопристанський 3,41145,827Hola Prystan14,666
Hornostaivka RaionГорностаївський 1,01819,7886,681
Ivanivka RaionІванівський 1,12013,995Ivanivka4,560
Kalanchak RaionКаланчацький 91621,568Kalanchak11,169
Kakhovka RaionКаховський 1,45035,968KakhovkaN/A *
Novotroitske RaionНовотроїцький 2,29835,921Novotroitske14,979
Novovorontsovka RaionНововоронцовський 1,00521,442Novovorontsovka6,379
Nyzhni Sirohozy RaionНижньосірогозький 1,20915,985Nyzhni Sirohozy4,891
Oleshky RaionОлешківський 1,75971,888Oleshky36,317
Skadovsk RaionСкадовський 1,45647,930Skadovsk21,830
Velyka Lepetykha RaionВеликолепетиський 1,00016,827Velyka Lepetykha8,326
Velyka Oleksandrivka RaionВеликоолександрівський 1,54025,948Velyka Oleksandrivka9,747
Verkhniy Rohachyk RaionВерхньорогачицький 91512,003Verkhniy Rohachyk5,698
Vysokopillia RaionВисокопільський 70115,121Vysokopillia6,148

.* Note: Though the administrative center of the rayon is housed in the city/town that it is named after, cities do not answer to the rayon authorities only towns do; instead they are directly subordinated to the oblast government and therefore are not counted as part of rayon statistics.
At a lower level of administration, these district-level administrations are subdivided into:
The local administration of the oblast' is controlled by the Kherson Oblast Rada. The governor of the oblast is the Kherson Oblast Rada speaker, appointed by the President of Ukraine.

Demographics

The population of the oblast is 1,083,367, which is 2.4% of the total population of Ukraine. It is also ranked 21st by its population. The population density is 38 per km².
About 61.5% or 745,400 people live in urban areas of the Oblast and 38.5% or 467,600 people live in agricultural centers/villages. Men make up 46.7% or 565,400 people of the population, women make up 53.3% or 644,600 people, and pensioners make up 26.2% or 317,400 people of the Oblast population.
Ukrainian National Census :

Median age

Attractions

During the 1991 referendum, 90.13% of votes in Kherson Oblast were in favor of the Declaration of Independence of Ukraine. A survey conducted in December 2014 by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology found 1% of the oblast's population supported their region joining Russia, 94.9% did not support the idea, and the rest were undecided or did not respond.