Chop, Ukraine

Chop (Ukrainian: Чоп, Hungarian: Csap, Slovak: Čop) is a city found in the 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.

Chop Чоп
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Coordinates:
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Chop City Municipality
Raion	Municipality
Government
• Mayor	Galina Car
Elevation	101−108 m (−253 ft)
Population  (2007)
• Total	8,765
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code	89502
Area code	+380 22
Sister cities	Milove (Ukraine) Sokołów Małopolski, (Poland) Záhony (Hungaria)
Website	http://chop.org.ua/

Demography

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% Gypsies, Russians, Slovaks, Belarusians, Jews .

Features

Chop is an important railway junction in Ukraine where the Lviv-Stryi-Budapest railway line meets the Lviv-Uzhgorod-Košice line. Near Chop, there are also international railway and highway border crossings to Hungary and Slovakia and also to the westernmost point of Ukraine.

Other websites

• Chop in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine
• Chop (Чоп) of Ukraine 1:100,000 topographic maps Archived 2007-10-26 at the Wayback Machine
• Discovering The Everyday Life in Chop Archived 2008-05-11 at the Wayback Machine