Everything about Rakhiv totally explained
Rakhiv (; ; ; ;,
translit. Rakhov; ) is a
city located in the
Zakarpattia Oblast (
province) in western
Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the
Rakhivskyi Raion (
district).
Demographics
As of 2001, the city population was 15,241 inhabitants which included:
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- 83.8% Ukrainians
- 11.6% Hungarians
- 3.2% Romanians
- 0.8% Russians
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. The sign in Dilove (pictured) located at, the point calculated in 1887 by the
Austro-Hungarian geographers, carries a latin iscription:
"Locus Perennis Dilicentissime cum libella librationis quae est in Austria et Hungaria confectacum mensura gradum meridionalium et paralleloumierum Europeum. MD CCC LXXXVII."Further Information
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