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| | chernivtsi_oblast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Chernivetsâka oblastâ), is an oblast (province) in southwestern Ukraine, bordering on Romania and Moldova. |
 | | The oblast, most of which is known by its ethnographic name Northern Bukovina, was created in 1940 by joining part of Bukovina, part of Bessarabia and part of the Kingdom of Romania, and attaching it to the Soviet Union, as an outcome of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact). |
 | | In 1940, the oblast had 805,642 inhabitants, out of which 47.6% were Ukrainians, and 28.2% were Romanians. |
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