Dnipro

Dnipro Oblast is located in the central and eastern parts of Ukraine, the most important industrial region of the country. The administrative centre of the region is Dnipro city. The region borders Poltava and Kharkiv regions to the north, the Donetsk region to the east, Zaporizhia and Kherson regions to the south, and Mykolaiv and Kirovohrad regions to the west. Dnipro region is located 454 km from Kyiv, 218 km from Kharkiv airport and 450 km from Odesa seaport.
Dnipro region is administratively divided into 7 districts. A total of 20 cities, 66 urban-type settlements, 46 urban-type settle and 1438 villages.
The Dnipro Oblast has a high industrial potential, which produces a wide range of products, including iron, rolled products, pipes, machines, various mining combines, agricultural equipment, tractors, trolleybuses, refrigerators, various chemicals and much more. The region also has large food and light industry enterprises, and many sewing and sewing factories. The Oblast is known for its aerospace industry (Pivdenmash) and ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih (the largest private company by revenue in Ukraine).
The Regional GDP in 2021 was 14.5 billion USD (10% of Ukraine’s GDP), FDI stock was 4 722 million USD (10% of Ukraine’s FDI stock), and export was 7.6 billion USD (15% of Ukraine’s export).
Industry specialization: metallurgy (iron, steel, metalworking), mining industry (ore, uranium, coal), mechanical engineering (aerospace industry, transport), chemistry (nitrogen, plastics).
Natural resources of the region: metal ores (copper, nickel, iron, cobalt, aluminium), sand, kaolin, gas, coal, and uranium.
There are 25 universities and 15 technical schools in the region. The leading universities are the Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, the Dnipro State Medical University and the Alfred Nobel University.
The unemployment rate in the region was 8.8% (average in Ukraine 9.9%) and the average salary was 433 USD (average in Ukraine 430 USD) in 2021.