Chop, Zakarpattia Oblast

Chop
Чоп - Csap
City of regional significance

Railway station in Chop

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Chop

Location of Chop

Coordinates: 48°25′50″N 22°12′00″E / 48.43056°N 22.20000°E / 48.43056; 22.20000
Country Ukraine
Oblast Zakarpattia Oblast
Council Chop city council
Government
 • Mayor Galina Car
Elevation 101-108 m (−253 ft)
Population (2016)
 • Total 8,937
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code 89500 — 89509
Area code(s) +380 22
Climate Cfb
Sister cities Milove (Ukraine)
Sokołów Małopolski, (Poland)
Záhony (Hungaria)
Website http://chop.org.ua/

Chop (Ukrainian: Чоп, Hungarian: Csap, Slovak: Čop) is a city located in Zakarpattia Oblast (province) of western Ukraine, near the borders of Slovakia and Hungary. It is separated from the Hungarian town of Záhony by the river Tisza by being situated on its right bank. Located inside Uzhhorod Raion, since 2003 it is designated as a city of oblast significance - not included in any raion (district) of the oblast. Population: 8,937 (2016 est.)[1].

Names

There are several alternative names used for this city: Hungarian: Csap, Slovak: Čop, German: Tschop, Romanian: Ciop, Polish: Czop, Russian: Чоп.

History

The new church

Like the rest of Transcarpathia, Csap (as it was then known) was part of Hungary until 1920, when, as a result of the post-World War I Treaty of Trianon, it was included in the newly created Czechoslovakia, where it belonged to Slovakia, not to Subcarpathian Rus. During World War II, under the First Vienna Award, it briefly became Hungarian again. But, after the war, as part of the outcome of the Yalta Conference, it became part of the expanded Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (now Ukraine), adopting the Ukrainian version of its name, 'Чоп' (usually transliterated as 'Chop' or 'Tchop' in English).

Demography

According to the Ukrainian national census, Chop had a population in 2001 of 8,919, of whom 40% were Ukrainians, 39.2% ethnic Hungarians and 20.8% Gypsies, Russians, Slovaks, Belarusians, and Jews.

Features

Passport stamps from Chop.
Old 1982 USSR passport stamps from the same crossing.

Chop is an important railway junction in Ukraine where the Lviv-Stryi-Budapest railway line meets the Lviv-Uzhgorod-Košice line. There is also a line running eastwards to Romania via Korolevo and Halmeu although there are currently no regular passenger services.

Near Chop, there are also international railway and highway border crossings to Hungary and Slovakia and also to the westernmost point of Ukraine. The first town across the border in Slovakia is Čierna nad Tisou while in Hungary, the first city is Záhony.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Чисельність наявного населення України (Actual population of Ukraine)" (PDF) (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
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Coordinates: 48°26′N 22°12′E / 48.433°N 22.200°E / 48.433; 22.200

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