Yekaterinoslav Governorate
Yekaterinoslav Governorate
Екатеринославская губерния | |
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Location in the Russian Empire | |
| Country | Russian Empire |
| Established | 1802 |
| Abolished | 1925 |
| Capital | Yekaterinoslav |
| Area | |
• Total | 63,391.61 km2 (24,475.64 sq mi) |
| Population (1897) | |
• Total | 2,113,674 |
| • Urban | 11.40% |
| • Rural | 88.60% |
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Yekaterinoslav Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire, with its capital in Yekaterinoslav. Covering an area of 63,392 km2 (24,476 sq mi), and being composed of a inhabitant of 2,113,674 by the census of 1897, it bordered Poltava Governorate to the north, Don Host Oblast to the east, Sea of Azov to the southeast, Taurida Governorate to the south, and Kherson Governorate to the west, and covered the area of the Luhansk, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, and Zaporizhzhia Oblasts of modern Ukraine.