Ethnic and religious factor in the development of Ukrainian regions: socio-geographical analysis

Kostaschuk Ivan, Mruchkovskyi Petro. Ethnic and religious factor in the development of Ukrainian regions: socio-geographical analysis. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2018;8(2):165-173. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1172192 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/5282 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part B item 1223 (26.01.2017). 1223 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eISSN 2391-8306 7 © The Authors 2018; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 01.02.2018. Revised: 05.02.2018. Accepted: 09.02.2018. UDC 911.3:2 ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS FACTOR IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF UKRAINIAN REGIONS: SOCIO-GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS Ivan Kostaschuk, Petro Mruchkovskyi Chernivtsi National University named after Yurii Fedkovych, Ukraine ivan_kostaschuk@ukr.net Abstract The article studies the influence of ethnic and religious factors on the formation of ethnic and confessional structure of Ukrainian regions, and it distinguishes the commonality between the ethnic structure of the population of the region and its level of confessionality. On the basis of selected research methods, the classification of Ukrainian regions according to the degree of ethnic structure of the population and the number of registered communities has been conducted. As a result of the conducted research, the religious-geographical zoning of the territory of Ukraine was conducted which takes into account the ethno-geographical features of the development of the regions. Key words: ethnic composition of the population, religious organizations, religious-geographical zoning, ethnic diversity of the population, religious diversity of the population