Valky

Valky
Валки
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Coat of arms of Valky
Valky is located in Kharkiv Oblast
Valky
Valky
Valky is located in Ukraine
Valky
Valky
Coordinates: 49°50′N 35°37′E / 49.833°N 35.617°E / 49.833; 35.617
Country Ukraine
OblastKharkiv Oblast
RaionBohodukhiv Raion
HromadaValky urban hromada
Population
 (2001)
 • Total10,381
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
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Valky (Ukrainian and Russian: Валки) is a city in Bohodukhiv Raion, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. Valky is situated on the banks of the river Mzha. The city borders on such villages as Kostiv and Hontiv Yar. It hosts the administration of Valky urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1] Population: 8,577 (2022 estimate).[2]

Until 18 July 2020, Valky was the administrative center of Valky Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Kharkiv Oblast to seven. The area of Valky Raion was merged into Bohodukhiv Raion.[3][4]

  1. ^ "Валковская городская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  4. ^ "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.