oblast
Slavic administrative division
An oblast is an administrative division in Russia and some other countries of the former Soviet Union, roughly equivalent to a province or region.
The term appears frequently in news about Eastern European geography and politics: Donetsk oblast, Kharkiv oblast.
Plural: oblasts or oblasti.
Regional administrative district
- districtBounded administrative area
- regionIndefinite bounded area
- governorateGovernor-led administrative region
- subdivisionPortion of something larger
jurisdiction · prefecture · territory · autonomous · boundary · capital · administrative center · federation
province
Regional administrative district
- districtBounded administrative area
- regionIndefinite bounded area
- governorateGovernor-led administrative region
subdivision · jurisdiction · prefecture · territory · autonomous · boundary · capital · administrative center · federation · centralized
Siberia
Russia's eastern expanse
Sakhalin · Kaliningrad · Leningrad · Murmansk · Kursk
Kyiv
Capital of Ukraine
- regionsregion, regions, area, areas, zone
- governancegovernance, government, democracy, vote, parliament
- geographic areascountry, county, province, district, zone
- jurisdictionscounty, city, province, state, counties
- territoriesprovince, state, region, country, colony
- zones and regionszone, region, district, territory, sector
oblastnation-state
Sovereign political territory
sovereign state · country · nation · municipality · federal government