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Zakarpattya or Transcarpathia (Закарпатська область, Zakarpats’ka oblast’ in Ukrainian) is an oblast' ( region) of Ukraine. Its capital is Uzhhorod. Other important cities are Mukachiv and Chop, Ukraine (the bordertown housing various transportation infrustructure).

Early history of the area includes the incorporation of the area into the Great Moravian Empire in the 9th and 10th centuries. From the end of the 10th century AD until 1918, Transcarpathia was part of the Kingdom of Hungary. Then it became part of Czechoslovakia until after the Second World War, when it was annexed to the Soviet UnionThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR ( Russian: ; tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik (SSSR) also called the Soviet Union ( ; tr. Sovetsky Soyuz , was a state in much of the northern region of Eurasia that existed from 1922 until 1's Ukrainian SSRCOA ( In Detail) (In Detail) State motto: , ! Official language None. According to the constitution, all languages were equal. However, Russian was supposed to be the language of international communication, thus putting Ukrainian at a disadvantage. Capit.

Although ethnic UkrainiansThe Ukrainians are a Slavic people of central- eastern Europe. They are the descendants of several people who inhabited the vast area extending from north of the Black Sea to the borders of Russia, Poland, Moldova, Belarus and Slovakia. Ukraine had a very (rather RutheniansRusyns also called Ruthenians Ruthenes, Rusins, Rysins, Carpatho-Rusins, and Russniaks, are a modern group of ethnic groups that speak the Rusyn language and are descended from the Ruthenians that did not become Ukrainians in the 19th century. They origin) are in majority here, other ethnic groupethnicity An ethnic group is a group of people who identify with one another, or are so identified by others, on the basis of either presumed cultural or biological similarities, or both. Like race and nation, the notion of ethnicity developed in the conts are relatively numerous in Zakarpattya. The largest those are Hungarians, RomaniansThe Romanians are the majority inhabitants of Romania and of Moldova (also called "moldovans"), while other groups of inhabitants lived or still live in Romania. In English they are usually called Romanians, except in some historical texts, where they are and SlovaksThe Slovaks are a western Slavic ethnic group that primarily inhabits Slovakia and speaks the Slovak language. There are approximately 5 million autochthonous Slovaks in Slovakia, around 300,000 in the Czech Republic, around 100,000 in Hungary, around 80,. Their languages and culture are respected by providing national school education, clubs etc.

The area of the region is 12,800 km²; its population (as of 2004- 05-01 ) is 1.2 million people.

Zakarpattya's economy depends mostly on trans- border trade, vinery and forestry.

See also:

• Carpathian Ruthenia