Rakhiv ( uk, Рахів, ; yi, ראַכעוו, hu, Rahó, ro, Rahău, rue, Рахово;
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city
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located in
Zakarpattia Oblast
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(
province
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) in western
Ukraine
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. It is the administrative center of
Rakhiv Raion (
district
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). Population: .
Rakhiv's date of the foundation is often taken to be 1447, although a written mentions of this settlement are attested since AD 910.
Names
There are several alternative names used for this city: rue, Рахово; hu, Rahó; ro, Rahău; russian: Рахов, Rakhov; yi, ראחוב, Rakhev
or ''Rakhyv''; sk, Rachov; german: Rachiw; pl, Rachów.
Demographics
As of 2017, the city population was inhabitants.
[Statistical Collection "Population of Ukraine" as of January 1, 2017]
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Features
Rakhiv, or more precisely, the village
Dilove located close to it, is one of several European locations vying for the symbolic right to be
Geographical centre of Europe
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. The sign in Dilove, the point calculated in 1887 by the
Austro-Hungarian
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geographers, carries a Latin inscription: ''"Locus Perennis Dilicentissime cum libella librationis quae est in Austria et Hungaria confectacum mensura gradum meridionalium et paralleloumierum Europeum. MD CCC LXXXVII."''
There was
Thomas Garrigue Masaryk in his stay to study a situation on the Romanian front during World War I in Hotel "Ukraina" on the winter 1917 - 1918, which remind the memorial desk there.
The Headquarters of
Carpathian Biosphere Reserve
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Carpathian Biosphere Reserve
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With an elevation of 430 meters above sea level, Rakhiv is Ukraine's highest city.
Climate
The climate in Rakhiv is a mild/cool summer subtype ( Köppen: ''Dfb'') of the humid continental climate
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.
Twin town
* Bielsk Podlaski
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Geography
Bielsk Podlas ...
, Poland
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* Szeged
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, Hungary
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People from Rakhiv
* Mickola Vorokhta, the Ukrainian artist was born here.
Gallery
File:Rakhiv a2.jpg, Church of Saint John Nepomucene
File:Ua Rakhiv Myra-Straße am Hotel Europa.jpg, Hotel Europa in Rakhiv
File:Гуцульська бринза.JPG, Hutsul
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festival in Rakhiv
References
External links
*
City of Rakhiv Informational portal
in th
Encyclopedia of Ukraine
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Cities in Zakarpattia Oblast
Cities of district significance in Ukraine
1477 establishments in Europe
15th-century establishments in Ukraine