Shyroke
Широке | |
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 Flag  Seal | |
  Shyroke | |
| Coordinates: 47°41′4″N 33°16′22″E / 47.68444°N 33.27278°E | |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Oblast | Dnipropetrovsk Oblast |
| Raion | Kryvyi Rih Raion |
| Population (2022)[1] | |
| • Total | 9,623 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Shyróke (Ukrainian: Широке; Russian: Широкое) is an urban-type settlement in Kryvyi Rih Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, southern Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Shyroke settlement hromada, one of the hromadas (communities) of Ukraine.[2] Population: 9,623 (2022 estimate).[1]
Shyroke is located on the left bank of the Inhulets, several kilometers east and south of the city of Kryvyi Rih.
Until 18 July 2020, Shyroke was the administrative center of Shyroke Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast to seven. The area of Shyroke Raion was merged into Kryvyi Rih Raion.[3][4]
Economy
Transportation
Shyroke is connected by a road with Kryvyi Rih. It also has access to the highway connecting Kropyvnytskyi and Zaporizhia via Kryvyi Rih and Nikopol.
References
- 1 2 Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.
- ↑ "Широковская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
- ↑ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
- ↑ "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.