Regions of Ukraine
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- For the political faction in the Ukrainian Parliament that bears this name see Party of Regions.
A list of the various regions of Ukraine and/or inhabited by Ukrainians and their ancestors throughout history.
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Traditional regions
The traditional names of the regions of Ukraine are important geographic, historical, and ethnographic identifiers.
- Volhynia (Volyn’)
- Galicia (Halychyna)
- Podillia (also Podollya)
- Sloboda Ukraine (Slobozhanshchyna, "free land")
- Zaporizhzhia ("beyond the rapids" of the Dnieper)
- Donbas ("Donets Basin")
- Black Sea Lands
- Crimea (Krym)
In the Carpathian Mountains (see also Ruthenia, Rusyns):
- Lemkian region (Lemkivshchyna)
- Boikian region (Boikivshchyna)
- Hutsul region (Hutsul’shchyna)
- Transcarpathia (Zakarpattia)
Regions historically inhabited by Ukrainians (mostly with other nations), which are partly or wholly outside modern Ukraine:
- San River region
- Chełm (Kholm) region
- Podlachia (Podlasie)
- Polesie (Polissia)
- Bukovina (Bukovyna)
- Basarabia (Bessarabia)
- Don river valley
- Kuban’
Other historic regions and names
- Little Russia (Template:Lang-ru), the name applied to Ukraine under the Russian Empire and earlier. Also, for historic reasons:
- Right-bank Ukraine (Pravoberezhna Ukrayina or Pravoberezhzhia), west of the Dnieper river
- Left-bank Ukraine (Livoberezhna Ukrayina or Livoberezhzhia), east of the Dnieper.
- New Russia (Template:Lang-ru), colony of the Russian Empire in the depopulated steppes, in the south-east of modern-day Ukraine (Dyke Pole, "the wild field")
Historic Ukrainian states
Main article: History of Ukraine
- Kievan Rus' (a state of Early East Slavs, c. 880–13th century);
- Galicia-Volhynia (Halych-Volyn’, 13th–14th centuries)
- Zaporozhian Host (1555–1654)
- Cossack Hetmanate (1654–1783)
- Army of Lower Zaporozhia (Old Sich, 1654–1709)
- Free Lands of the Zaporozhian Host (New Sich, 1734–1775)
- Central Rada of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1917–1918)
- Hetmanate of the Ukrainian State (1918)
- Western Ukrainian People's Republic (1918–1919)
- Directorate of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1918–1920)
- Ukrainian SSR (1919–1991)
- Carpatho-Ukraine (1939)
Modern political subdivisions
Main article: subdivisions of Ukraine
Ukraine is subdivided into twenty-four oblasts (oblasti, provinces), one autonomous republic (avtonomna respublika), and two cities (mista, singular misto) with special legal status.
Oblasts:
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Autonomous republic:
Municipalities with special legal status:
See also
- List of cities in Ukraine
- Geography of Ukraine
- History of Ukraine
- Category:Regions of Ukraine
- Category:Ukrainian historical regions
References
- Paul Robert Magosci, Ukraine: A Historical Atlas, 1985. University of Toronto Press, Toronto. ISBN 0-8020-3428-4de:Liste der Oblaste der Ukraine
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