Chortkiv

Chortkiv
Чортків
St. Stanislaus Church
St. Stanislaus Church
Flag of Chortkiv
Coat of arms of Chortkiv
Chortkiv is located in Ternopil Oblast
Chortkiv
Chortkiv
Location of Chortkiv in Ukraine
Chortkiv is located in Ukraine
Chortkiv
Chortkiv
Chortkiv (Ukraine)
Coordinates: 49°00′27″N 25°47′26″E / 49.00750°N 25.79056°E / 49.00750; 25.79056
Country Ukraine
OblastTernopil Oblast
RaionChortkiv Raion
HromadaChortkiv urban hromada
Magdeburg rights1533
City status1939[1]
Government
 • City MayorVolodymyr Shmatko
Area
 • Total30 km2 (10 sq mi)
Elevation218 m (715 ft)
Population
 (2022)
 • Total28,279
 • Density940/km2 (2,400/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code
48500—48509
Area code+380 3552
Website[1]
Map

Chortkiv (Ukrainian: Чортків, IPA: [tʃortˈkiu̯]; Polish: Czortków; Yiddish: טשארטקאוו, romanizedTshortkov) is a city in Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast, western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Chortkiv Raion, housing the district's local administration buildings. Chortkiv hosts the administration of Chortkiv urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[3] Population: 28,279 (2022 estimate).[4]

Chortkiv is located in the northern part of the historic region of Galician Podolia on the banks of the Seret River.[1][5]

In the past Chortkiv was the home of many Hasidic Jews; it was a notable shtetl and had a significant number of Jews residing there prior to the Holocaust. Today, Chortkiv is a regional commercial and small-scale manufacturing center.[5] Among its architectural monuments is a fortress built in the 16th and 17th centuries[6] as well as historic wooden churches of the 17th and 18th centuries.[7]

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  2. ^ "Chortkiv (Ternopil Oblast, Chortkiv Raion)". weather.in.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2 February 2012.
  3. ^ "Чертковская городская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
  4. ^ Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.
  5. ^ a b "Chortkiv". Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
  6. ^ "CHORTKIV CASTLE, 1610". Halychyna! - Homeland Page. Central European University Personal Pages. Archived from the original on 31 January 2011. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
  7. ^ "Foundations of history". chortkiv.com.ua (in Ukrainian). Unicom ISP. Retrieved 3 February 2012.