Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
The Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (Ukrainian Івано - Франківська область / Ivano- Frankivska oblast - to 1962 Станіславська область / Stanislawska oblast, Russian Ивано - Франковская область / Ivano- Frankowskaja oblast ) called Region is an administrative unit of the Ukraine in the southwest of the country. It has around 1.38 million inhabitants (2014). The Oblast is part of the historic landscape of Galicia.
Capital is Ivano-Frankivsk, Kalush other cities, Burshtyn and Kolomyja. In the south of the Carpathian Mountains form the border with Romania. Is the Howerla, the highest, at 2,061 meters mountain of Ukraine on the border with Transcarpathian Oblast. In the northwest, the Oblast borders the Lviv Oblast, on the northeast by the Oblast Ternopil, on the southeast by the Chernivtsi Oblast as well as on the southwest by the Transcarpathian Oblast.
Largest cities
Administrative subdivision
The Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast is administratively divided into 14 Rajone and 5 directly below the Oblastverwaltung cities. These are the cities Yaremche, Bolekhiv, Kalush, Kolomyja as well as the eponymous administrative center of the oblast, the city of Ivano -Frankivsk.