Chop, Ukraine

Chop (Ukrainian: Чоп, Hungarian: Csap, Slovak: Čop) is a city found in the 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.

Chop
Чоп
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Coordinates:
CountryUkraine
OblastChop City Municipality
RaionMunicipality
Government
 • MayorGalina Car
Elevation
101−108 m (−253 ft)
Population
 (2007)
 • Total8,765
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code
89502
Area code(s)+380 22
Sister cities Milove (Ukraine)
Sokołów Małopolski, (Poland)
Záhony (Hungaria)
Websitehttp://chop.org.ua/

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, Jews .

Features

Chop is an important railway junction in Ukraine where the Lviv-Stryi-Budapest railway line meets the Lviv-Uzhgorod-Košice line. Near Chop, there are also international railway and highway border crossings to Hungary and Slovakia and also to the westernmost point of Ukraine.

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