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Київ (Kyiv) | |||||
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| Coordinates: 50°27′00″N 30°31′24″E / 50.45000°N 30.52333°ECoordinates: 50°27′00″N 30°31′24″E / 50.45000°N 30.52333°E | |||||
| Country | Ukraine | ||||
| Municipality | Kyiv City Municipality | ||||
| Founded | 482 A.D. (officially)[2] | ||||
| City council | Kyiv City Council | ||||
| Raions | List of 10
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| Government | |||||
| • Mayor and Head of City State Administration | Vitali Klitschko | ||||
| • MPs: | Boryslav Bereza Viktor Chumak (BPP) Andrei Illyenko (SV) Alexander Suprunenko Andriy Biletsky Volodymyr Ariev (BPP) Oleksandr Tretiakov (BPP) Vyacheslav Konstantinovskiy (PF) Leonid Yemets (PF) Dmytro Andrievsky (BPP) Yuri Levchenko (SV) | ||||
| Area | |||||
| • City with special status | 839 km2 (324 sq mi) | ||||
| Elevation | 179 m (587 ft) | ||||
| Population (15 July 2013) | |||||
| • City with special status | 2,847,200[1] | ||||
| • Density | 3,299/km2 (8,540/sq mi) | ||||
| • Metro | 3,375,000[3]of the Kyiv metropolitan area | ||||
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) | ||||
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) | ||||
| Postal code | 01xxx-04xxx | ||||
| License plate | AA (before 2004: КА, КВ, КЕ, КН, КІ, KT) | ||||
| Website | kievcity.gov.ua | ||||
Kyiv (Ukrainian: Київ) is the capital and largest city of Ukraine. Almost three million people live there.
The city hosted the UEFA Euro 2012 final. Kyiv also hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in 2017.
Kyiv has a humid continental climate (Dfb in the Köppen climate classification).
Climate
| Climate data for Kiev (1981–2010, extremes 1881–present) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 11.1 (52) |
17.3 (63.1) |
22.4 (72.3) |
30.2 (86.4) |
33.6 (92.5) |
35.0 (95) |
39.4 (102.9) |
39.3 (102.7) |
33.8 (92.8) |
28.0 (82.4) |
23.2 (73.8) |
14.7 (58.5) |
39.4 (102.9) |
| Average high °C (°F) | -0.9 (30.4) |
0.0 (32) |
5.6 (42.1) |
14.0 (57.2) |
20.7 (69.3) |
23.5 (74.3) |
25.6 (78.1) |
24.9 (76.8) |
19.0 (66.2) |
12.5 (54.5) |
4.9 (40.8) |
0.0 (32) |
12.5 (54.5) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −3.5 (25.7) |
−3.0 (27) |
1.8 (35.2) |
9.3 (48.7) |
15.5 (59.9) |
18.5 (65.3) |
20.5 (68.9) |
19.7 (67.5) |
14.2 (57.6) |
8.4 (47.1) |
1.9 (35.4) |
-2.3 (27.9) |
8.4 (47.1) |
| Average low °C (°F) | -5.8 (21.6) |
-5.7 (21.7) |
-1.4 (29.5) |
5.1 (41.2) |
10.8 (51.4) |
14.2 (57.6) |
16.1 (61) |
15.2 (59.4) |
10.2 (50.4) |
4.9 (40.8) |
0.0 (32) |
-4.6 (23.7) |
4.9 (40.8) |
| Record low °C (°F) | -32.9 (-27.2) |
-32.2 (-26) |
-24.9 (-12.8) |
-10.4 (13.3) |
-2.4 (27.7) |
2.4 (36.3) |
5.8 (42.4) |
3.3 (37.9) |
-2.9 (26.8) |
-17.8 (-0) |
-21.9 (-7.4) |
-30.0 (-22) |
-32.9 (-27.2) |
| Precipitation mm (inches) | 36 (1.42) |
39 (1.54) |
37 (1.46) |
46 (1.81) |
57 (2.24) |
82 (3.23) |
71 (2.8) |
60 (2.36) |
57 (2.24) |
41 (1.61) |
50 (1.97) |
45 (1.77) |
621 (24.45) |
| % Humidity | 83 | 80 | 74 | 64 | 62 | 67 | 68 | 67 | 74 | 77 | 85 | 86 | 74 |
| Avg. rainy days | 8 | 7 | 9 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 14 | 11 | 14 | 12 | 12 | 9 | 138 |
| Avg. snowy days | 17 | 17 | 10 | 2 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.03 | 2 | 9 | 16 | 73 |
| Sunshine hours | 42 | 64 | 112 | 162 | 257 | 273 | 287 | 252 | 189 | 123 | 51 | 31 | 1,843 |
| Source #1: Pogoda.ru.net,[5] Central Observatory for Geophysics (extremes)[6][7] | |||||||||||||
| Source #2: Danish Meteorological Institute (sun, 1931–1960)[8] | |||||||||||||
Notable people
- Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian writer and playwright
- Victor Skumin, Russian professor, philosopher, writer, psychologist, psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and medical doctor
References
- ↑ "Соціально-економічне становище м.Києва: Січень–липень 2013 року". Department of Statistics, Kiev City State Administration. July 2013. http://gorstat.kiev.ua/Docs/2820.doc. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
- ↑ "Kyiv’s 1,530th birthday marked with fun, protest". http://www.kyivpost.com/guide/about-kyiv/kyivs-1530th-birthday-marked-with-fun-protest-1-128618.html.
- ↑ "Major Agglomerations of the World". Citypopulation.de. 1 April 2013. http://www.citypopulation.de/world/Agglomerations.html. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
- ↑ kievan. (n.d.). Dictionary.com Unabridged, retrieved 29 May 2013 from Dictionary.com
- ↑ "Weather and Climate – The Climate of Kiev" (in Russian). Weather and Climate (Погода и климат). http://pogoda.ru.net/climate/33345.htm. Retrieved 1 March 2013.
- ↑ "Кліматичні дані по м.Києву" (in Ukrainian). Central Observatory for Geophysics. http://www.cgo.kiev.ua/index.php?fn=k_klimat&f=kyiv&p=1. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
- ↑ "Кліматичні рекорди" (in Ukrainian). Central Observatory for Geophysics. http://www.cgo.kiev.ua/index.php?dv=klimat-rekords/. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
- ↑ Cappelen, John; Jensen, Jens. "Ukraine – Kiev" (in Danish). Climate Data for Selected Stations (1931–1960). Danish Meteorological Institute. p. 332. Archived from the original on 27 April 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130427173827/http://www.dmi.dk/dmi/tr01-17.pdf. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
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