Odes’ka oblast’
Одеська область

Missing image Map_of_Ukraine_political_simple_Oblast_Odessa.png Map of Ukraine highlighting Odes'ka
Capital	Odessa
Population   - total   - density   - urban	2,423,275 73 /km� 65.9%
Area	33,300 km�
Raions	26
Cities	19
Districts	8
Urban type
Localities	33
Villages	1,138

Odeska oblast’ (Ukrainian: Одеська область) is an oblast' (region) of south-western Ukraine. Its capital is Odessa.

It includes the historical teritory of southern Bessarabia (or Budjak), north of the Danube River, which was annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940 from Romania, in accord with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.

Important cities (except Odessa itself) include:

• Bilhorod-Dnistrovs'kyi;
• Izmail;
• Illichivs'k;
• Reni
• Yuzhny, Odes'ka oblast', Ukraine.

Significant branches of the province's economy are:

• oil refinery & chemicals processing
• transportation (important sea&river ports, oil pipelines and railway);
• vegetable agriculture and vinery.

The area of the region is 33,300 km�; its population (as of 2004-05-01) is 2.4 million people.

Notable Romanian/Moldovan, Bulgarian and Greek minorities reside in the province.

Subdivisions of Ukraine
oblasts:	Cherkas'ka | Chernihivs'ka | Chernivets'ka | Dnipropetrovs'ka | Donets'ka | Ivano-Frankivs'ka | Kharkivs'ka | Khersons'ka | Khmel'nyts'ka | Kirovohrads'ka | Kyivs'ka | Luhans'ka | L'vivs'ka | Mykolayivs'ka | Odes'ka | Poltavs'ka | Rivnens'ka | Sums'ka | Ternopil's'ka | Vinnyts'ka | Volyns'ka | Zakarpats'ka | Zaporiz'ka | Zhytomyrs'ka
autonomous republic:	Crimea
cities with special status:	Kyiv | Sevastopol

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