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Odeska oblast’ ( Ukrainian: Одеська область) is an oblast' ( region) of south-western Ukraine. Its capital is Odessa.

It includes the historical teritory of southern Bessarabia (or Budjak), north of the Danube River, which was annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940 from Romania, in accord with the Molotov-Ribbentrop PactThe Molotov-Ribbentrop pact also known as the Hitler-Stalin pact or Nazi-Soviet pact was a non-aggression treaty between Germany and Russia, or more precisely between the Soviet Union and the Third Reich. It was signed in Moscow on August 23, 1939, by the.

Important cities (except Odessa itself) include:

• Bilhorod-Dnistrovs'kyiBilhorod-Dnistrovs'kyi ( Ukrainian: Romanian: Cetatea Alba Turkish: Akkerman is a city in southern Ukraine. Population 48,100 (2004). Administratively, it is a center of Bilhorod-Dnistrovs'kyi raion ( district) within the Odes'ka oblast'. Historically a p;
• Izmail ;
• Illichivs'k ;
• ReniReni is: Alan Wren a city in southern Ukraine, near the confluence of Prut and Danube rivers.
• Yuzhny, Odes'ka oblast', UkraineYuzhny ( Ukrainian: from Russian: is a port city within Odes'ka oblast' of Ukraine, situated on the country's Black Sea coast. It is an internationally important oil terminal, and one of Ukraine's top three ports, with Odessa and Illichivs'k. In fact, the.

Significant branches of the province's economy are:

• oil refineryAn oil refinery is an industrial process plant where crude oil is processed and refined into useful petroleum products. Raw or unprocessed ("crude") oil is not very useful in the form it comes in out of the ground. It needs to be broken down into parts an & chemicals processing
• transportation (important sea&river portFor articles about other uses of port, please see Port (disambiguation). A Port is a facility at the edge of an ocean, river, or lake for receiving ships and transferring cargo and persons to them. A seaport is a major facility for the loading, unloading,s, oil pipelineThis article refers to the mechanical, electrical, and software systems meaning of pipeline. For pipelines used to transport fluids like water or petroleum, see pipeline transport. The term pipeline has meaning in electrical and mechanical systems as wells and railway);
• vegetable agriculture and vinery.

The area of the region is 33,300 km²; its population (as of 2004- 05-01 ) is 2.4 million people.

Notable Romanian/ Moldovan, Bulgarian and Greek minorities reside in the province.