Geography
The area of the province is 27,200 km²; its population (as of 2004-05-01) is 1.9 million.
Important cities include:
- Berdyansk
- Enerhodar – home of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
- Melitopol
- Zaporizhia
Read more about this topic: Zaporizhia Oblast
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