Khorol, Poltava Oblast

Khorol (Ukrainian: Хорол, pronounced [xoˈrɔɫ]) is a city in Lubny Raion, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Khorol urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.^[1] Population: 12,540 (2022 estimate).^[2]

Khorol Хорол
City
Downtown Khorol
Flag Coat of arms
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Coordinates: 49°46′N 33°16′E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Poltava Oblast
Raion	Lubny Raion
Hromada	Khorol urban hromada
Population  (2022)
• Total	12,540

Until 18 July 2020, Khorol was the administrative center of Khorol Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Poltava Oblast to four. The area of Khorol Raion was merged into Lubny Raion.^[3][4]

Notable natives of Khorol include Ben-Zion Dinur and Aryeh Dvoretzky.

Name

The town is named after the Khorol River upon which it is situated.^{[citation needed]}

Population

Language

Distribution of the population by native language according to the 2001 census:^[5]

Language	Percentage
Ukrainian	97.21%
Russian	2.63%
other/undecided	0.16%

Gallery

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  Assumption Church in Khorol
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  Railway station
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  M03 highway near Khorol
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  Khorol River

References

1. "Хорольская городская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
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.
3. "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
4. "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.
5. "Рідні мови в об'єднаних територіальних громадах України".