The Kyiv metropolitan area ( uk, Київська агломерація, ) is an unofficially designated

urban agglomeration An urban area, built-up area or urban agglomeration is a human settlement with a high population density and infrastructure of built environment. Urban areas are created through urbanization and are categorized by urban morphology as cities, t ...

within the outer boundary of

Kyiv Oblast Kyiv Oblast ( uk, Ки́ївська о́бласть, translit=Kyïvska oblast), also called Kyivshchyna ( uk, Ки́ївщина), is an oblast (province) in central and northern Ukraine. It surrounds, but does not include, the city of Kyiv, w ...

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

. It consists of the country's capital city of

Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

(an enclave within the oblast), its satellite settlements and nearest rural areas closely bound to the city by employment and commerce. According to different sources, it is ranked among 20 largest metropolitan areas in Europe.

Area and population

* Total population: censuses and estimates numbers vary from 3.375.000 (138 world rank) to 3,648,900 (some other sources bring 4,130,000 - 5,206,000); * Kyiv City proper population: ** official: as of July 2013; ** as of the

2001 Ukrainian census The Ukrainian Census of 2001 is to date the only census of the population of independent Ukraine. It was conducted by the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine on 5 December 2001, twelve years after the last Soviet Union census in 1989.

** at least 3.5 million, according to the 2007 estimates based on the amount of

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products sold in the city (thus including temporary visitors and commuters) * Suburban population: * Total area: 13,534 km². * Population density: 268,4 people/km².

Economy and infrastructure

Gross Regional Product

In 2020, Kiev metropolitan area had a

Gross regional product Gross regional product (GRP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all final goods and services produced in a region or subdivision of a country in a period (quarterly or yearly) of time. A metropolitan area's GRP (gross metropolitan prod ...

of ₴1.257 trillion (

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32 billion) of which ₴1.015 trillion was Kyiv city and ₴242 billion Kyiv Oblast.https://ukrstat.gov.ua/druk/publicat/kat_u/2022/zb/05/zb_vvp_2020.pdf

Transport

The area has a highly developed railway and road infrastructure, being linked to Kyiv through the suburban railways, buses and

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. Kyiv metropolitan area is served by two international passenger airports:

Boryspil Airport Boryspil International Airport ( uk, Міжнародний аеропорт «Бориспіль») is an international airport in Boryspil, east of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. It is Ukraine's largest airport, serving 65% of its passenger ...

and Kyiv (Zhuliany) Airport; there are also the Gostomel cargo airport and additional three operating

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s facilitating airplane manufacturing and

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Environment

According to the UN 2011 evaluation, there were no risks of

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s in the Kyiv metropolitan area

References

External links

* Алфьоров М.А. Урбанізаційні процеси в Україні в 1945-1991 рр: Монографія/ М.А.Алфьоров – Донецьк: Донецьке відділення НТШ ім. Шевченка, ТОВ «Східний видавничий дім» 2012. – 552 с. {{coord missing, Ukraine Metropoliten area Geography of Kyiv Oblast Metropolitan areas of Ukraine Economy of Kyiv Economy of Kyiv Oblast