Chop, Ukraine

Chop
Чоп
Csap
City
Railway station
Railway station
Flag of Chop
Flag
Coat of arms of Chop
Coat of arms
Chop is located in Zakarpattia Oblast
Chop
Chop
Location of Chop
Chop is located in Ukraine
Chop
Chop
Chop (Ukraine)
Coordinates: 48°25′50″N 22°12′00″E / 48.43056°N 22.20000°E / 48.43056; 22.20000
Country Ukraine
OblastZakarpattia Oblast
RaionUzhhorod Raion
HromadaChop urban hromada
Government
 • MayorHalyna Tsar
Elevation
[1]
103 m (338 ft)
Population
 (2022)
 • Total
8,626
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
89500 — 89509
Area code+380 22
ClimateCfb
Sister citiesMilove (Ukraine)
Sokołów Małopolski, (Poland)
Záhony (Hungary)
Websitechop-rada.gov.ua

Chop (Ukrainian: Чоп, IPA: [tʃɔp] ⓘ; Hungarian: Csap; Slovak: Čop; Rusyn: Чоп; Yiddish: טשאָפּ) is a city located in Zakarpattia Oblast (province) of western Ukraine, near the borders of Slovakia and Hungary. It is separated from the Hungarian town of Záhony by the river Tisza, being situated on its right bank. It is located within Uzhhorod Raion. As of 2022, its population is 8,626 (2022 estimate).[2]

Toponymy

There are several alternative names used for this city: Hungarian: Csap, Slovak: Čop, German: Tschop, Romanian: Ciop, Polish: Czop, Russian: Чоп, Yiddish: טשאָפּ.

History

The new church

Like the rest of Transcarpathia, Chop was part of Hungary until 1920, when, as a result of the post-World War I Treaty of Trianon, it was included in the newly created Czechoslovakia, where it belonged to Slovakia, not to Subcarpathian Rus. During World War II, under the First Vienna Award, it briefly became Hungarian again. But, after the war, as part of the Czechoslovakia–Soviet Union relations, it became part of the expanded Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (now Ukraine).

Demographics

According to the Ukrainian national census, Chop had a population in 2001 of 8,919, of whom 40% were Ukrainians, 39.2% ethnic Hungarians and 20.8% Roma, Russians, Slovaks, Belarusians, and Jews.

Features

Passport stamps from Chop.
Old 1982 USSR passport stamps from the same crossing.
Border crossing

Chop is an important railway junction in Ukraine where the Lviv-Stryi-Budapest railway line meets the Lviv-Uzhhorod-Košice line. There is also a line running eastwards to Romania via Korolevo and Halmeu although there are currently no regular passenger services.

Near Chop, there are also international railway border crossing Druzhba to Záhony, Hungary, international railway border crossing Strazh to Čierna nad Tisou, Slovakia, international road border crossing Tysa to Záhony, Hungary, and also to the westernmost point of Ukraine. The first town across the border in Slovakia is Čierna nad Tisou while in Hungary, the first city is Záhony.

Notable people

See also

References

  1. ^ "Chop (Zakarpattia Oblast, Uzhhorod Raion)". weather.in.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 25 December 2018.
  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.
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