Place:Rovno, Ukraine

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Name	Rovno
Alt names	Rivne Oblast
	Rivne	source: Russia, National Geographic (1993) map supplement
	Rivnenshchyna	source: Wikipedia
	Rivnens’ka oblast’	source: Wikipedia
	Rovno	source: Getty Vocabulary Program
	Rovno oblast	source: Getty Vocabulary Program
	Rowno	source: Wikipedia
	Рівненська область	source: Wikipedia
	Рівненщина	source: Wikipedia
Type	Oblast
Located in	Ukraine

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Rivne Oblast is an oblast (province) of Ukraine. Its administrative center is Rivne. The surface area of the region is 20,100 km². Its population is: . Previously part of the Second Republic of Poland's Wojewódstwo Wołyńskie and earlier the Ukrainian People's Republic's Volhynian Governorate, the Rivne Oblast was created as part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic on December 4, 1939 after the Soviet invasion and occupation of eastern Poland on 17 September 1939.

Before 1992, under the policy of Russification, the region was officially known under its Russian name of Rovno Oblast. Afterwards, it was called by its Ukrainian name Rivnenshchyna.

The Rivne Nuclear Power Plant is located in the oblast, near the city of Varash.

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