Feodosia Municipality

Feodosia City Municipality
Феодосійська міськрада
Municipality

Location within Crimea
Country

Disputed:

Republic Crimea
Capital Feodosia
Subdivisions
Area
  Total 350 km2 (140 sq mi)
Population (2014)
  Total 100,962
  Density 290/km2 (750/sq mi)
Time zone MSK (UTC+3)
Dialing code +380-6562 ¹
(1) exсept for the towns of Krasnokamenka, Kurortne and Shchebetovka - calling code +380-6566

Feodosia City Municipality (Ukrainian: Феодосійська міськрада, Russian: Феодосийский горсовет, Crimean Tatar: Kefe şeer şurası), officially "the territory governed by the Feodosia city council", is one of the 25 regions of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine and incorporated by Russia as the Republic of Crimea. Population: 100,962(2014 Census).[1]

It is a resort region, located in southeastern Crimeaone of the most popular recreational territories of the former Soviet Union. Besides its capital Feodosia, the region is famous for the resort town of Koktebel.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions of Russia, Feodosia is, together with a number of urban and rural localities, incorporated separately as the town of republican significance of Feodosia—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.[2] As a municipal division, the town of republican significance of Feodosia is incorporated as Feodosia Urban Okrug.[3]

Within the framework of administrative divisions of Ukraine, Feodosia is incorporated as the town of republican significance of Feodosia.[4] Ukraine does not have municipal divisions.

Besides the city of Feodosia, the municipality includes five towns and 12 villages which are organised into seven town and village communities.

Former names which were officially changed in 1945-49 after the deportation of Crimean Tatars and are now used only by the Crimean Tatar community are mentioned in brackets.

References

Notes

  1. Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2014). "Таблица 1.3. Численность населения Крымского федерального округа, городских округов, муниципальных районов, городских и сельских поселений" [Table 1.3. Population of Crimean Federal District, Its Urban Okrugs, Municipal Districts, Urban and Rural Settlements]. Федеральное статистическое наблюдение «Перепись населения в Крымском федеральном округе». ("Population Census in Crimean Federal District" Federal Statistical Examination) (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  2. Law of the Republic of Crimea #35-ZRK
  3. Law of the Republic of Crimea #15-ZRK
  4. Чисельність наявного населення України (in Ukrainian). State Service of Statistics. Retrieved 8 August 2014.

Sources

Coordinates: 45°02′56″N 35°22′45″E / 45.04889°N 35.37917°E / 45.04889; 35.37917

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