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Population of kiev ukraine 20209/25/2023 The main street of Kyiv- Khreshchatyk-runs along this ravine. The upper city was divided by the Khreshchatyi ravine to the northwest was Old Kyiv ( Starokyivska Hora) and the newer city to its west to the southeast was the settlement of Pechersk. The highest points in the city are 200 m above sea level, 110 m above the Dnipro’s surface many of them rise steeply from the river, which is contained now by an embankment. ![]() The oldest part of Kyiv lies along the high right bank of the Dnipro River and its adjacent lower terrace among the picturesque hills between the Dnipro and the valley of its right-bank tributary, the Lybid River. Its proximity to the Eurasian steppe, however, also rendered it vulnerable to the invasions of Asiatic hordes, which brought about its decline. Consequently, by the 11th century, Kyiv was the largest economic and political center in eastern Europe. In the Middle Ages, however, far more significant was Kyiv’s location at the intersection of international trade routes: the Varangian route down the Dnipro and its tributaries to Constantinople the overland Zaloznyi route to the Sea of Azov and Caucasia the overland Solianyi route to the Crimea and the overland route to Galicia, Volhynia, Transcarpathia, and the rest of Europe. For over a millennium it has been the primary marketplace for the agricultural and forest products of the Dnipro Upland, Polisia, and the Dnipro Lowland. Kyiv is situated on the banks of the main river of Ukraine-the Dnipro River. It is also the capital of Kyiv oblast, the largest city (2020 pop 2,963,199) in Ukraine (with a metropolitan area of 847.66 sq km), one of the largest industrial centers, financial center, and an important transport and communications hub. ![]() The historic and current political, religious, scientific, and cultural capital of Ukraine.
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