Rakhiv (Ukrainian: Рахів, IPA: [ˈrɑxiu̯] ⓘ; Rahó (Hungarian); Rahău (Romanian)) is a city located in Zakarpattia Oblast (province) in western Ukraine.

[1] Rakhiv's date of the foundation is often taken to be 1447, although a written mentions of this settlement are attested since AD 910.

According to the 2001 census, the majority of Rahau's population spoke Ukrainian (92.08%), with Hungarian (4.8%) and Russian (2.28%) speakers in the minority.

The sign in Dilove, the point calculated in 1887 by the Austro-Hungarian geographers, carries a Latin inscription: "Locus Perennis Dilicentissime cum libella librationis quae est in Austria et Hungaria confectacum mensura gradum meridionalium et paralleloumierum Europeum.

"[5] There was Thomas Garrigue Masaryk in his stay to study a situation on the Romanian front during World War I in Hotel "Ukraina" on the winter 1917 - 1918, which remind the memorial desk there.