Дніпропетровська область

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast


Дніпропетровська область or shorter Дніпропетро́вщина (Dnipropetrovshchyna) is located in southeastern Ukraine, and the most important industrial region of the country. About half of the territory is covered by the Black Sea Lowland, which is a low plain with high groundwater level and completely devoid of underground sites. But the Dnieper Upland in the southeast contains a number of minerals including iron, manganese, granite, graphite, brown coal, and kaolin. The mining region is called the Кривбас (Kryvbas) or Криворізький залізорудний басейн (Kryvorizkyi Iron Ore Basin). There is iron ore mining and heavy industry with steel production.