Piatykhatky (Ukrainian: П'ятихатки [pjɐtɪˈxɑtkɪ], lit. 'five houses') is a small city and a large railway junction in Kamianske Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Piatykhatky urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1] Population: 18,140 (2022 estimate).[2] Population in 2001 was 20,563.
According to "П'ятихатки - це не місто й не село" chat data, until 18 July 2020, Piatykhatky was the administrative center of Piatykhatky Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast to seven. The area of Piatykhatky Raion was merged into Kamianske Raion.[3][4]
As of the 2001 Ukrainian census, the town had a population of 20,459 inhabitants. In terms of ethnicities, the overwhelming majority of the population are Ukrainians, followed by a sizeable Russian minority and smaller Armenian and Belarusian minorities. The exact ethnic and linguistic composition of the settlement was as follows:[5]
