Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (Ukrainian: Івано-Франківська область, romanized: Ivano-Frankivska oblast), also referred to as Ivano-Frankivshchyna (Івано-Франківщина) or simply Frankivshchyna, is an oblast (region) in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Ivano-Frankivsk.

Ivano-Frankivsk (Ukrainian: Івано-Франківськ, IPA: [iˈwɑno frɐnˈkiu̯sʲk] ⓘ), formerly Stanyslaviv, Stanislav and Stanisławów, [a] [2] [3] is a city in western Ukraine. [4] It serves as the administrative centre of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast as well as …

Ivano-Frankivsk, city, western Ukraine. It lies along the Bystritsa River just above its confluence with the Dniester River. Founded in 1662 as the Polish town of Stanisławów (Ukrainian: Stanyslaviv), it occupied an important position on the northern approach to the Yablonitsky Pass over the Carpathians.

Nov 7, 2023 · Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast or Ivano-Frankivska Oblast is an administrative region located in the south-west of Ukraine. In the very south of the region, over a distance of 50 km, there is a section of the state border between Ukraine and Romania.

Ivano-Frankivsk oblast [Івано-Франківська область; Ivano-Frankivs'ka oblast']. An administrative region in Western Ukraine, established on 4 December 1939. Until 1962 it was called Stanyslaviv oblast. With an area of 13,900 sq km and population of 1,377,500 (2018), the oblast has 14 raions, 15 cities, 24 towns (smt) and 765 villages.

Jun 18, 2024 · The Ivano-Frankivsk region (Ukr. oblast) is located in the west of Ukraine. Its lands were part of the Galicia-Volhynia. This is where the capital of the West Ukrainian People’s Republic was moved to continue the creation of the Ukrainian state.

The Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast is a beautiful region situated in the west of Ukraine and covers a space of 13.9 thousand square kilometers. The region borders the Lviv, Chernivtsi, Trans-carpathian and Ternopil Oblasts. Yaremche, Rohatyn, Vorokhta, Kolomyia, Tysmenytsia and Kosiv are some of the cities located in Ivano-Frankivsk.

Ivano-Frankivsk is a city of roughly 210,000 people, which was originally a fortress built to protect the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth. Read about the city's ties to its Tatar, Turkish, Austrian, Polish and Russian past.

From independence in 1991 to 2020, six cities in the oblast were designated as cities of regional significance (municipalities), which had self-government under city councils, while the oblast's remaining nine cities were located in fourteen raions as cities of district significance, which are subordinated to the governments of the raions.

Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (Ukrainian: Івано-Франківська область) is an oblast of western Ukraine. The administrative centre is Ivano-Frankivsk. The population of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast was 1,382,000 in 2013. [1]