Ostrytsia

Ostrytsia (Ukrainian: Остриця; Romanian: Ostrița) is a village in Hertsa Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine.

It hosts the administration of Ostrytsia rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine,[1] Until 18 July 2020, Ostrytsia belonged to Hertsa Raion, which was historically a part of the province of Bukovina.

[2][3] In 2001, 93.73% of the 3,686 inhabitants spoke Romanian (3,455 people) as their native language (93.22% self-declared it Romanian, or 3,436, and 0.52% self-declared it Moldovan, or 19), while 4.96%, or 183 people, spoke Ukrainian.

[4] In the Soviet census of 1989, the number of inhabitants who declared themselves Romanians plus Moldovans was 2,965 (324, or 10.05% Romanians plus 2,641 or 81.92% Moldovan) out of 3,224, representing 91.97% of the locality's population, and there were 205 ethnic Ukrainians (6.36%).

[6] In 2001, in the Ostrytsia rural hromada (rural community) created in 2020, with a population of 13,868, 960 of the inhabitants (6.92%) spoke Ukrainian as their native language, while 12,796 (92.27%) spoke Romanian (out of which 12,428 or 89.62% called the language Romanian and 371 or 2.68% called the language Moldovan), and 89 (0.64%) spoke Russian.