Dnipro

Dnipro (Дніпро)
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Dnipro (Дніпро) Map o Ukraine wi Dnipro heichlichtit Show map of Ukraine Dnipro (Дніпро) Dnipro (Дніпро) (Dnipropetrovsk Oblast) Show map of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Coordinates: 48°27′0″N 34°59′0″E / 48.45000°N 34.98333°E / 48.45000; 34.98333Coordinates: 48°27′0″N 34°59′0″E / 48.45000°N 34.98333°E / 48.45000; 34.98333
Kintra	Ukraine
Oblast	Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Raion	Dnipro Raion
Foondit	1776
Raions	8 Amur-Nyzhnodniprovskyi Raion Shevchenkivskyi Raion Sonornyi Raion Industrialnyi Raion Tsentralnyi Raion Chechelivskyi Raion Novokodatskyi Raion Samarskyi Raion
Govrenment
• Mayor	Borys Albertovych Filatov
Area
• Total	405 km2 (156 sq mi)
Elevation	155 m (509 ft)
Population  (2011)[1]
• Total	1,001,612
• Density	2486/km2 (6,440/sq mi)
Postal code	49000
Area code(s)	+380 56(2)
Sister ceeties	Vilnius, Durham Region, Samara, Tashkent, Xi'an, Herzliya, Žilina, Saloniki, Wałbrzych
Website	gorod.dp.ua

Dnipro (Ukrainian: Дніпро [dnʲipro]) or Dnepr (Roushie: Днепр) formerly Yekaterinoslav (Roushie: Екатеринослав, Ukrainian: Катеринослав, translit. Katerynoslav, an aa Catharinoslav on auld maps^[2]) is Ukraine's third lairgest ceety wi 1.1 million indwallers.^[3] It is locatit sootheast o Ukraine's caipital Kiev on the Dnieper River, in the sooth-central region o the kintra. Dnipro is the admeenistrative center o the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (province).

Athin the Dnipro metropolitan aurie thare are 1,860,000 fowk (2001).^[4]

A vital industrial centre o Ukraine, Dnipro wis ane o the key centers o the nuclear, airms, an space industries o the umwhile Soviet Union. In pairticular, it is hame tae Yuzhmash, a major space an ballistic missile designer an manufacturer. Acause o its military industry, the ceety wis a closed ceety^[5] til the 1990s.

Dnipro haes a heichlie-developit public transportation seestem, includin the Dnipro Metro, which consists o ane metro line wi a tot o 6 stations.

The ceety o Dnipro is twinned wi:

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