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Traditional regions

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

Main historical regions

Coat of arms Name Description
Black Sea Littoral Other names: Yedisan, Ochakov Oblast.
Budjak name originated from Turkish, meaning "borderland”
Coat of arms of Bucovina Bukovyna Other names: Shypyntsi Land.
Donbas Other names: Land of Cumans.
Coat of arms of Halychyna Halychyna Other names: Galicia, Cis–Carpathian (east of the ridge).
Coat of arms of land of Kyiv Kyiv land Other names: Duchy of Ruthenia, Ruthenia proper.
Coat of arms of land of Chernihiv Siveria[1] Other names: Chernihiv land, Chernihiv-Siveria.
Coat of arms of Podillia Podolia Podolia means "Lower Land".
Coat of arms of Sloboda Ukraine Sloboda Ukraine
Taurida Now Crimea
Coat of arms of Carpathian 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.
Coat of arms of Volhynia Volhynia Other names: Vladimir, Volyn, Lodomeria.
Coat of arms of Zaporizhian Sich Zaporizhian Sich

Traditional regions

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

Contemporary regions

  Gold – Central Ukraine
  Blue – Eastern Ukraine
  Light blue – Southern Ukraine
  Orange – Western Ukraine

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:

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).

Historical states

Main article: History of Ukraine

See also

References

  1. ^ Русина О. В. Сіверська земля // Енциклопедія історії України: у 10 т. / редкол.: В. А. Смолій (голова) та ін. ; Інститут історії України НАН
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