{"id":23978,"date":"2024-06-05T03:12:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T21:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=23978"},"modified":"2025-10-14T11:08:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T05:38:05","slug":"dnipro-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/dnipro-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Dnipro City"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Dnipro:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Formerly referred to as Dnipropetrovsk, Dnipro is a city of regional significance located in the <strong>Dnipropetrovsk Oblast<\/strong>, in the <strong>eastern portion of Ukraine.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It covers an area of 409,718 sq. km and is <strong>situated along <\/strong>both the <strong>banks of the <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/dnieper-river\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dnieper River<\/a>, <strong>close to its meeting point with the Samara River.\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The city center stands on the right bank, which forms a part of the Dnieper Upland, while the left bank forms a part of the Dnieper Lowland.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It is the <strong>country&#8217;s fourth-biggest city<\/strong> after the cities of Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Odesa.<\/li>\n<li>As of 2021, the city of Dnipro had a population of 980,948 inhabitants.<\/li>\n<li>It is considered one of the <strong>principal industrial centers of Ukraine<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li>The city hosts several facilities devoted to heavy industries producing various products, including launch vehicles, rolled metal, cast iron, machinery, agricultural equipment, different chemicals, etc.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key Facts about Dnieper River:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>fourth-longest river in Europe<\/strong> (after the Volga, the Danube, and the Ural).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>In Russian, the river\u2019s name is Dnepr. In Ukrainian, it is Dnipro, and in Belarusian, it is Dnyapro.<\/li>\n<li>Located in <strong>Eastern Europe<\/strong>, the Dnieper River and its tributaries<strong> drain much of Belarus and Ukraine.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Course<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>It <strong>originates in Russia<\/strong>, in the <strong>low Valday Hills,<\/strong> west of Moscow.<\/li>\n<li>It runs a total length of <strong>1,368 miles<\/strong> through <strong>western Russia<\/strong>, <strong>Belarus<\/strong>, and <strong>Ukraine<\/strong> before <strong>emptying into the Black Sea.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It passes through numerous <strong>urban centers,<\/strong> such as the <strong>Russian cities<\/strong> of <strong>Smolensk and Dorogobuzh<\/strong>, as well as <strong>Mogilevin Belarus<\/strong> and <strong>Kiev, Cherkasy, Dnipro, and Zaporizhia in Ukraine.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Historically, the river was an important barrier <strong>dividing Ukraine into right and left banks.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Tributaries: It has as many as 32,000 tributaries, including the <strong>Sozh, Desna, Trubizh<\/strong>, <strong>Bilozerka, Drut<\/strong>, Berezina, and <strong>Prypiat<\/strong> Rivers.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: Which all countries border Ukraine?<\/h3>\n<p>Ukraine shares the border with seven other countries: Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Moldova, Russia, and Belarus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/theprint.in\/world\/russian-missile-attack-on-ukraines-dnipro-injures-seven-people-including-two-children\/2115266\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Russian missile attack on Ukraine\u2019s Dnipro injures seven people, including two children<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Formerly referred to as Dnipropetrovsk, Dnipro is a city of regional significance located in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, in the eastern portion of Ukraine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}