Chop, Ukraine

Chop

Чоп
Chop Чоп
City
	Railway station in Chop
	Flag Coat of arms
	Chop Location of Chop Chop Chop (Ukraine)
	Coordinates: 48°25′50″N 22°12′00″E / 48.43056°N 22.20000°E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Zakarpattia Oblast
Raion	Uzhhorod Raion
Hromada	Chop urban hromada
Government
• Mayor	Halyna Tsar
Elevation	103 m (338 ft)
Population (2022)
• Total	8,626
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	89500 — 89509
Area code	+380 22
Climate	Cfb
Sister cities	Milove (Ukraine) ; Sokołów Małopolski, (Poland) ; Záhony (Hungary)
Website	chop-rada.gov.ua

Chop (Ukrainian: Чоп, Hungarian: Csap, Slovak: Čop, Rusyn: Чоп, Yiddish: טשאָפּ) is a city located in 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, being situated on its right bank. It is located within Uzhhorod Raion. Today, the population is 8,626 (2022 estimate).^[2]

Toponymy

There are several alternative names used for this city: Hungarian: Csap, Slovak: Čop, German: Tschop, Romanian: Ciop, Polish: Czop, Russian: Чоп, Yiddish: טשאָפּ.

History

The new church

Like the rest of Transcarpathia, Chop was part of Hungary until 1920, when, as a result of the post-World War I Treaty of Trianon, it was included in the newly created Czechoslovakia, where it belonged to Slovakia, not to Subcarpathian Rus. During World War II, under the First Vienna Award, it briefly became Hungarian again. But, after the war, as part of the Czechoslovakia–Soviet Union relations, it became part of the expanded Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (now Ukraine).

Demographics

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% Roma, Russians, Slovaks, Belarusians, and Jews.

Features

Passport stamps from Chop.

Old 1982 USSR passport stamps from the same crossing.

Border crossing

Chop is an important railway junction in Ukraine where the Lviv-Stryi-Budapest railway line meets the Lviv-Uzhhorod-Košice line. There is also a line running eastwards to Romania via Korolevo and Halmeu although there are currently no regular passenger services.

Near Chop, there are also international railway border crossing Druzhba to Záhony, Hungary, international railway border crossing Strazh to Čierna nad Tisou, Slovakia, international road border crossing Tysa to Záhony, Hungary, and also to the westernmost point of Ukraine. The first town across the border in Slovakia is Čierna nad Tisou while in Hungary, the first city is Záhony.

Notable people

András Pándy, serial killer
J. Peters, political activist

References

^ "Chop (Zakarpattia Oblast, Uzhhorod Raion)". weather.in.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 25 December 2018.
^ 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.

External links

48°26′N 22°12′E / 48.433°N 22.200°E / 48.433; 22.200

[1] "Chop (Zakarpattia Oblast, Uzhhorod Raion)". weather.in.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 25 December 2018.

[ua2022estimate-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.

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