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Bookmark or Share- Oblasts of Russia - WikipediaOblasts are divided into raions (districts), cities of oblast significance (district-equivalent independent cities), and autonomous okrugs, which are legally federal subjects equal to an oblast but are administratively subservient to one.
- Oblast - WikipediaIn Ukraine, an oblast (Ukrainian: область [ˈɔblɐsʲtʲ] ⓘ; in English called a province or region) refers to one of the country's 24 primary administrative units. Since Ukraine is a unitary state, the provinces (or regions) do not have much legal scope of competence other than that which is established in the Ukrainian Constitution and by law.
- Oblast Definition & Meaning - Merriam-WebsterThe meaning of OBLAST is a political subdivision of Imperial Russia or a republic of the Soviet Union or of Russia.
- oblast - Wiktionary, the free dictionaryThe territorial subdivision below the level of the union republic — or at least below the level of the larger union republics — is that of the oblast, the krai, or the autonomous republic.In 1977 there were 120 oblasts, 6 krais, and 20 autonomous republics, and they corresponded roughly to the American state in size.
- Oblasts of the Soviet Union - WikipediaThe oblasts of the Soviet Union were second-level administrative units of the Soviet Union, and first-level entities of the republics of the Soviet Union.
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