Járkov (Óblast)

"El óblast de Járkov (en ucraniano, Kharkivs'ka oblast') es un óblast (provincia) de Ucrania situado en la zona oriental del país, y creado el 27 de febrero de 1932. Su capital es Járkov, donde se concentran 1,5 millones de habitantes, siendo la segunda ciudad de Ucrania en población, así como en comercio. Es además un centro universitario. Tiene una superficie de 31 000 km² y su población a 1 de enero de 2003 era de 2 800 000 habitantes."

"Kharkiv Oblast (Ukrainian: , translit. Charkivka oblastj; also referred to as Kharkivshchyna Ukrainian: , Charkivyna, Russian: , translit. Charjkovskaja oblastj) is an oblast (province) in eastern Ukraine. The oblast borders Russia to the north, Luhansk Oblast to the east, Donetsk Oblast to the south-east, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast to the south-west, Poltava Oblast to the west and Sumy Oblast to the north-west. The area of the oblast is 31,400 km², corresponding to 5.2% of the total territory of Ukraine. The oblast is the third most populous province of Ukraine, with a population of 2,857,751 in 2004, more than half (1.5 million) of whom live in the city of Kharkiv, the oblast's administrative center. While the Russian language is primarily spoken in the cities of Kharkiv oblast, elsewhere in the oblast most inhabitants speak Ukrainian."