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Dnipropetrovs'k Region is unique due to many its characteristics – historical and cultural heritage, industrial potential, education level of its population.
The region pertains to densely populated territories and occupies more than 5% of country's area. Here, app. 3,5 million people resides, that makes 7% of Ukrainian population.
The favourable geographic location, international and national highways, as well as well developed railways network pass along the territory of the region and unite industrial regions that enables to fastly create any network of goods and services distribution. The central bus station of the region's central city is second one in Europe (after Hamburg) due to its size and passenger traffic capacity.
The air communication is provided by 2 international airports.
The region is decorated with one of the largest European rivers – the Dnipro river, which is an essential part of region's economy. River ports are able to service all ships of «river-sea» type, which transport cargoes to the Black, Azov and Mediterranean seas.
Dnipropetrovs'k Region has resources, which enable it to manufacture 20% of country's GDP. This is the place where 100% of manganese ore of Ukraine are extracted, nearly 80% of iron ore, the fifth of its coals. Here, it is manufactured more than a third of the iron, steel, rolled metal, 75% of pipes. The region's products exports provide for 11% of currency earnings of Ukraine, and 58% of the region.
The visiting card of the region is one of the largest world's rocket space centre – the Southern Machine-Building Plant and Design Office «Pivdenne».
The agricultural complex of the region is represented by more than a thousand of agricultural firms and nearly 3.4 thousand of farms. The quality of lands and the climatic conditions allow to grow all types of agricultural cultures and to obtain high outputs of their crops.
90% of economic entities pertain to non-governmental sector of economy.
The region pertains to leading exporters of Ukraine. The foreign economic transactions are carried out by app. 2 thousand enterprises. They are ready to expand deliveries of the products of practically all branches of the industry. Beside trade partnership, the region offers for implementation projects in field of power industry, transport infrastructure and logistics, agriculture. Dnipropetrovs'k Region has sufficient experience of interregional co-operation. According to ratings of independent experts it, together with Donets'k and Kyiv, pertains to the most attractive for investments regions of Ukraine. Within the region's territory app. 800 enterprises with foreign investments are operating.
Dnipropetrovs'k Region is the land of talented, industrious people, which keep and augment economic and cultural possessions of our country, it is hospitable and very rich land. It is open for constructive partnership. |