Chop, Ukraine
Chop (Ukrainian: Чоп, Hungarian: [Csap] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), 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.
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| Coordinates: Coordinates: 48°25′50″N 22°12′00″E / 48.43056°N 22.20000°E | |
| Country | Ukraine |
| Oblast | Chop City Municipality |
| Raion | Municipality |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Galina Car |
| Elevation | 101-108 m (−253.3 ft) |
| Population (2022) | |
| • Total |  8,626 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Postal code | 89502 |
| Sister cities | Milove (Ukraine) Sokołów Małopolski, (Poland) Záhony (Hungaria) |
| Website | http://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.
Chop, Ukraine Media
Csapi református templom 2007 / Chop_church of reformed_2007
Passport stamps from Chop.
Old 1982 USSR passport stamps from the same crossing.
Slovak-Ukrainian state border between Čierna nad Tisou and Solomonovo (from UA side)
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Other websites
- Chop in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine
- Chop (Чоп) of Ukraine 1:100,000 topographic maps Archived 2007-10-26 at the Wayback Machine
- Discovering The Everyday Life in Chop Archived 2008-05-11 at the Wayback Machine
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