Dnipro

Dnipro ( ) or Dnepr () formerly Yekaterinoslav (, , translit. Katerynoslav, an aa Catharinoslav on auld mapsEnglish map of 1820) is Ukraine's third lairgest ceety wi 1.1 million indwallers.Ukrcensus.gov.ua — City  URL accessed on 8 March 2007 It is locatit sootheast o Ukraine's caipital Kiev on the Dnieper River, in the sooth-central region o the kintra. Dnipro is the admeenistrative center o the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (province).

Athin the Dnipro metropolitan aurie thare are 1,860,000 fowk (2001).uk.wikipedia.org URL accessed on 19 August 2007

A vital industrial centre o Ukraine, Dnipro wis ane o the key centers o the nuclear, airms, an space industries o the umwhile Soviet Union. In pairticular, it is hame tae Yuzhmash, a major space an ballistic missile designer an manufacturer. Acause o its military industry, the ceety wis a closed ceetyA closed ceety does no allou foreigners inside athoot offeecial permission. til the 1990s.

Dnipro haes a heichlie-developit public transportation seestem, includin the Dnipro Metro, which consists o ane metro line wi a tot o 6 stations.

 Twin touns — Sister ceeties 

The ceety o Dnipro is twinned wi:
 Dalian, Cheenae
 Ganja, Azerbaijan
 Herzliya, Israel
 Krasnoyarsk, Roushie
 Samara, Roushie. syne 25 Mey 1993
 Szczecin, Poland Tashkent, Uzbekistan, syne 1998
 Thessaloniki, Greece, syne 27 Februar 1984
 Vilnius, Lithuanie, syne 29 September 1998
 Xi'an, Cheenae, syne 1998
 Žilina, Slovakie, syne 13 Februar 1993

 References 


Category:Ceeties in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Category:Closed ceeties
Category:Populatit places established in 1776