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238:First level
1472:Categories
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1265:Zinovievsk
1183:Kremenchuk
1149:Kryvyi Rih
1139:Zaporizhia
1135:Berdyansk†
1118:Shepetivka
916:March 2012
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379:Bohodukhiv
272:136 raions
251:24 oblasts
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1410:Taganrog†
1386:Artemivsk
1359:Okhtyrka†
1306:Berdychiv
1242:Proskuriv
1229:Kamianets
1224:Vinnytsia
1162:Pavlohrad
1154:Melitopol
418:with the
348:Berdiansk
330:Formation
196:of 1918.
147:Ukrainian
118:districts
91:1918-1930
1413:Shakhty†
1396:Mariupil
1355:Kupiansk
1270:Mykolaiv
1113:Korosten
1108:Zhytomyr
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67:Location
56:Category
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1435:Hlukhiv
1430:Konotop
1406:Staline
1391:Luhansk
1368:Kharkiv
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1247:Tulchyn
1237:Mohyliv
1233:Haisyn†
1201:Pryluky
1196:Poltava
900:scholar
440:Hlukhiv
395:Stalino
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