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| | Kharkiv oblast |
 | | (Map: Kharkiv oblast.) An administrative region in northeastern Ukraine formed on 27 February 1932, with an area of 31,400 sq km and a population in 2005 of 2,848,000. |
 | | oblast’s climate is temperate-continental, with an average temperature in January of -7 to -8°C and in July of 19.5 to 21.5°C. The annual precipitation ranges from 490 mm in the southeast to 570 mm in the northwest. |
 | | oblast had 4.7 percent of the cattle (366,000 head), 4.0 percent of the cows (171,700 head), 4.2 percent of the pigs (306,500 head) and 3.9 percent of the sheep and goats (71,600 head) in Ukraine; and it produced 6.1 percent of the country’s meat, 4.6 percent of the milk, and 5.5 percent of the eggs. |
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