Rakhiv, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine
🇺🇦 Rakhiv is a city located in Zakarpattia Oblast in western Ukraine. It is the administrative centre of Rakhiv Raion.
Rakhiv's date of the foundation is often taken to be 1447, although a written mentions of this settlement are attested since AD 910.
Rakhiv, or more precisely, the village Dilove located close to it, is one of several European locations vying for the symbolic right to be Geographical centre of Europe. The sign in Dilove, the point calculated in 1887 by the Austro-Hungarian geographers, carries a Latin inscription: "Locus Perennis Dilicentissime cum libella librationis quae est in Austria et Hungaria confectacum mensura gradum meridionalium et paralleloumierum Europeum. MD CCC LXXXVII".
The Headquarters of Carpathian Biosphere Reserve are located in Rakhiv.
With an elevation of 430 meters above sea level, Rakhiv is Ukraine's highest city.
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Rakhiv has a population of over 15,596 people. Rakhiv also forms the centre of the wider Rakhiv Raion which has a population of over 82,397 people.
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Twin Towns, Sister Cities Rakhiv has links with:
🇭🇺 Belváros-Lipótváros, Hungary 🇵🇱 Bielsk Podlaski, Poland 🇭🇺 Deszk, Hungary 🇷🇴 Poienile de sub Munte, Romania 🇸🇰 Svidník, Slovak Republic 🇭🇺 Szeged, Hungary 🇨🇿 Třebíč, Czech Republic 🇭🇺 Túrkeve, Hungary🇩🇪 Sigmaringen 48.083
🇩🇪 Biberach an der Riß 48.1
🇩🇪 Biberach an der Riss 48.1
🇭🇺 Salgótarján 48.105
🇺🇦 Sverdlovsk 48.067
🇩🇪 Villingen-Schwenningen 48.066
🇺🇸 Marysville 48.05
🇩🇪 Mindelheim 48.037
🇺🇦 Shakhtarsk 48.033
🇩🇪 Landsberg am Lech 48.033
🇳🇦 Katima Mulilo 24.267
🇧🇬 Pazardzhik 24.333
🇷🇴 Râmnicu Vâlcea 24.367
🇫🇮 Hämeenlinna 24.459
Locations Near: Rakhiv 24.223,48.0667
🇷🇴 Maramures 24,47.667 d: 47.5
🇷🇴 Baia Mare 23.583,47.667 d: 65.2
🇺🇦 Khust 23.307,48.178 d: 69.1
🇺🇦 Kolomyya 25.033,48.517 d: 78.1
🇺🇦 Kolomyia 25.037,48.529 d: 79.1
🇷🇴 Bistrița 24.494,47.136 d: 105.4
🇺🇦 Iwano-Frankowsk 24.7,48.917 d: 100.8
🇺🇦 Ivano-Frankivsk 24.7,48.917 d: 100.8
Antipodal to: Rakhiv -155.777,-48.067
🇵🇫 Papeete -149.566,-17.537 d: 16573.8
🇹🇴 Nuku'alofa -175.216,-21.136 d: 16553.9
🇦🇸 Pago Pago -170.701,-14.279 d: 16014.7
🇼🇸 Apia -171.76,-13.833 d: 15933
🇺🇸 Hilo -155.089,19.725 d: 12476.6
🇺🇸 Maui -156.446,20.72 d: 12366.1
🇺🇸 Maui County -156.617,20.868 d: 12349.5
🇺🇸 Kahului -156.466,20.891 d: 12347