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Historical regions in present-day Ukraine

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Traditional regions

This is a list of historical regions in present-day Ukraine.

Main historical regionsEdit

Coat of arms Name Description
Black Sea Littoral Other names: Yedisan, Ochakov Oblast, Khanschyna, Ottoman Ukraine.
File:Budzacky herb.svg Budjak name originated from Turkish, meaning "borderland”
File:Coat of arms of Bukovina.svg Bukovyna Other names: Shypyntsi Land.
File:CoA of Donechyna (UPR) (White Shield).svg Donbas Other names: Donechchyna
File:Alex K Halych.svg Halychyna Other names: Galicia, Cis–Carpathian (east of the ridge).
File:Coat of arms of Kiev.svg Kyiv land Other names: Duchy of Ruthenia, Ruthenia proper.
File:COA of Chernihiv Principality.svg Siveria<ref>Русина О. В. Сіверська земля // Енциклопедія історії України: у 10 т. / редкол.: В. А. Смолій (голова) та ін.; Інститут історії України НАН</ref> Other names: Chernihiv land, Chernihiv-Siveria.
File:Alex K Podolia.svg Podolia Podolia means "Lower Land".
File:Герб Харькова основной исторический.png Sloboda Ukraine
Taurida Now Crimea
File:Karptska Ukraina COA.svg Trans–
Carpathia 		Carpathian region beyond the main Carpathian ridge (west of the ridge). Other names: Carpathian Ruthenia, Carpathian Ukraine, Carpatho-Ukraine, Sub-Carpathian Ruthenia, Sub-Carpathia, Trans-Carpathian Ukraine, Zakarpattia.
File:Alex Volhynia.svg Volhynia Other names: Vladimir, Volyn, Lodomeria.
File:Coat of arms of the Cossack Hetmanat.svg Zaporizhian Sich

Traditional regionsEdit

The traditional names of the regions of Ukraine are important geographic, historical, and ethnographic identifiers.

Contemporary regionsEdit

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Sometimes, more southern oblasts can be referred to as "Eastern Ukraine".

Geopolitical, historical, and cultural factors play a role in assigning different areas of Ukraine to semi-official regions. The map on the right shows the approximate locations of some broad-brush regions. The terms "Central Ukraine", "Eastern Ukraine", "Southern Ukraine", and "Western Ukraine" occur in common usage. There is no clear definition of the boundaries of such regions, but rather a general reference. Lists of what may constitute such regions might include:

  • Central Ukraine, a more vague term, often denotes what is not included in Western or South-Eastern definitions.
  • Eastern Ukraine may mean either the Don basin, Sloboda Ukraine, continental Taurida regions etc.
  • Southern Ukraine often includes the whole Taurida, the Kryvyi Rih basin, and the regions of Mykolayiv and Odesa oblasts. Alternatively it may include the Don basin, in particularly the adjacent land to the Azov Sea.
  • Western Ukraine may mean either the historic region of Galicia, or may also include Volhynia, Podolia, Transcarpathia, and/or Bukovina.

Other terms are rarely used – such as "South-western Ukraine", which can denote either Transcarpathia, or Budjak. Sometimes the term "South-eastern Ukraine" is used to define both regions of the Southern and Eastern Ukraine. Due to the shape of the country, in narrow definition, term "Northern Ukraine" is often used to denote either the bulge of Chernihiv/Sumy oblasts or, in broader terms, the whole of Polesia. "North-western Ukraine" almost exclusively refers to the historic region of Volhynia. This makes the term "North-eastern Ukraine" rarest of them all – it is either used as synonym for the narrow definition of Northern Ukraine, or as synonym for Sloboda Ukraine (particularly Sumy Oblast).

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    Central Ukraine

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    Eastern Ukraine

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    Northern Ukraine

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    Southern Ukraine

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    Western Ukraine

Historical statesEdit

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See alsoEdit

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ReferencesEdit

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