Kalanchak

Kalanchak (Каланчак)
Urban-type settlement

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Coordinates: 46°15′08″N 33°17′26″E / 46.25222°N 33.29056°E / 46.25222; 33.29056
Country Ukraine
Oblast Kherson
Raion Kalanchak
Area
  Total 21.706 km2 (8.381 sq mi)
Population (2015)
  Total 9,274
Postal code 75800
Area code(s) +380-5530

Kalanchak (Ukrainian: Каланчак) is an urban-type settlement in Kherson Oblast, Ukraine. [1] It serves as the administrative center of Kalanchak Raion. Population: 9,2,747(2015 est.)[2]

The settlement was founded in 1794 as a home for exiled participants in the Turbai uprising.[3]

References

  1. "Главная страница Каланчацька селищна рада". kalanrada.ks.ua. Retrieved 2016-11-13.
  2. "Чисельність наявного населення України (Actual population of Ukraine)" (PDF) (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  3. Volodymyr Kubijovyc (26 May 2016). Encyclopedia of Ukraine: Volume II: G-K. University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division. p. 1169. ISBN 978-1-4426-5118-0.


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