Historical regions in present-day Ukraine#Regions of Ukraine

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

Main historical regions

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Coat of arms ! Name ! Description
style="width:1em;" \| \| style="width:5em;" \| Black Sea Littoral \| style="width:25em;" \| Other names: Yedisan, Ochakov Oblast, Khanschyna, Ottoman Ukraine.
style="width:1em;" \| File:Budzacky_herb.svg \| style="width:5em;" \| Budjak \| style="width:25em;" \| name originated from Turkish, meaning "borderland”
style="width:1em;" \| File:Coat of arms of Bukovina.svg \| style="width:5em;" \| Bukovyna \| style="width:25em;" \| Other names: Shypyntsi Land.
style="width:1em;" \| File:CoA_of_Donechyna_(UPR)_(White_Shield).svg \| style="width:5em;" \| Donbas \| style="width:25em;" \| Other names: Donechchyna
style="width:1em;" \| File:Alex K Halych.svg \| style="width:5em;" \| Halychyna \| style="width:25em;" \| Other names: Galicia, Cis–Carpathian (east of the ridge).
style="width:1em;" \| File:Coat of arms of Kiev.svg \| style="width:5em;" \| Kyiv land \| style="width:25em;" \| Other names: Duchy of Ruthenia, Ruthenia proper.
style="width:1em;" \| File:COA of Chernihiv Principality.svg \| style="width:5em;" \| SiveriaРусина О. В. [http://resource.history.org.ua/cgi-bin/eiu/history.exe?Z21ID=&I21DBN=EIU&P21DBN=EIU&S21STN=1&S21REF=10&S21FMT=eiu_all&C21COM=S&S21CNR=20&S21P01=0&S21P02=0&S21P03=TRN=&S21COLORTERMS=0&S21STR=Siverska_zemlia Сіверська земля] // Енциклопедія історії України: у 10 т. / редкол.: В. А. Смолій (голова) та ін.; Інститут історії України НАН \| style="width:25em;" \| Other names: Chernihiv land, Chernihiv-Siveria.
style="width:1em;" \| File:Alex K Podolia.svg \| style="width:5em;" \| Podolia \| style="width:25em;" \| Podolia means "Lower Land".
style="width:1em;" \| File:Герб Харькова основной исторический.png \| style="width:5em;" \| Sloboda Ukraine \| style="width:25em;" \|
style="width:1em;" \| \| style="width:5em;" \| Taurida \| style="width:25em;" \| Now Crimea
style="width:1em; center" \| File:Karptska Ukraina COA.svg \| style="width:5em;" \| Trans– Carpathia \| style="width:25em;" \| 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.
style="width:1em;" \| File:Alex Volhynia.svg \| style="width:5em;" \| Volhynia \| style="width:25em;" \| Other names: Vladimir, Volyn, Lodomeria.
style="width:1em;" \| File:Coat of arms of the Cossack Hetmanat.svg \| style="width:5em;" \| Zaporizhian Sich \| style="width:25em;" \|

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Coat of arms

! Name

! Description

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| style="width:5em;" | Black Sea Littoral

| style="width:25em;" | Other names: Yedisan, Ochakov Oblast, Khanschyna, Ottoman Ukraine.

style="width:1em;" | File:Budzacky_herb.svg

| style="width:5em;" | Budjak

| style="width:25em;" | name originated from Turkish, meaning "borderland”

style="width:1em;" | File:Coat of arms of Bukovina.svg

| style="width:5em;" | Bukovyna

| style="width:25em;" | Other names: Shypyntsi Land.

style="width:1em;" | File:CoA_of_Donechyna_(UPR)_(White_Shield).svg

| style="width:5em;" | Donbas

| style="width:25em;" | Other names: Donechchyna

style="width:1em;" | File:Alex K Halych.svg

| style="width:5em;" | Halychyna

| style="width:25em;" | Other names: Galicia, Cis–Carpathian (east of the ridge).

style="width:1em;" | File:Coat of arms of Kiev.svg

| style="width:5em;" | Kyiv land

| style="width:25em;" | Other names: Duchy of Ruthenia, Ruthenia proper.

style="width:1em;" | File:COA of Chernihiv Principality.svg

| style="width:5em;" | SiveriaРусина О. В. [http://resource.history.org.ua/cgi-bin/eiu/history.exe?Z21ID=&I21DBN=EIU&P21DBN=EIU&S21STN=1&S21REF=10&S21FMT=eiu_all&C21COM=S&S21CNR=20&S21P01=0&S21P02=0&S21P03=TRN=&S21COLORTERMS=0&S21STR=Siverska_zemlia Сіверська земля] // Енциклопедія історії України: у 10 т. / редкол.: В. А. Смолій (голова) та ін.; Інститут історії України НАН

| style="width:25em;" | Other names: Chernihiv land, Chernihiv-Siveria.

style="width:1em;" | File:Alex K Podolia.svg

| style="width:5em;" | Podolia

| style="width:25em;" | Podolia means "Lower Land".

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| style="width:5em;" | Sloboda Ukraine

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| style="width:5em;" | Taurida

| style="width:25em;" | Now Crimea

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| style="width:5em;" | Trans–
Carpathia

| style="width:25em;" | 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.

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| style="width:5em;" | Volhynia

| style="width:25em;" | Other names: Vladimir, Volyn, Lodomeria.

style="width:1em;" | File:Coat of arms of the Cossack Hetmanat.svg

| style="width:5em;" | Zaporizhian Sich

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Traditional regions

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

35px Over-Dnieper Ukraine, or Great Ukraine
35px Land of Kyiv
Right-bank Ukraine (east of Zhytomyr Oblast, Kyiv Oblast, Cherkasy Oblast), Central Ukraine
Polesia, Land of Turov (north of Kyiv Oblast, east of Brest Oblast, west of Gomel Oblast), Northern Ukraine
Land of Pereyaslav (predominantly Poltava Oblast and east of Kyiv Oblast), southern part of Left-bank Ukraine, Little Russia, Central Ukraine
35px Land of Chernihiv (predominantly Chernihiv Oblast, west of Bryansk Oblast, east of Gomel Oblast), northern part of Left-bank Ukraine, Little Russia, Northern Ukraine
Severia (Sumy Oblast, Kharkiv Oblast, Kursk Oblast, Belgorod Oblast)
Sloboda Ukraine (mostly Kharkiv Oblast)
35px Ruthenia, Kingdom of Rus, Western Ukraine, Western Oblast, Lesser Poland
35px Volhynia (Volyn Oblast, Rivne Oblast, west of Zhytomyr Oblast, north of Ternopil Oblast, north of Khmelnytsky Oblast), former principality
Chełm, Belz, San River, Przemyśl (east of Podkarpackie Voivodeship and Lublin Voivodeship), former principality and a constituent land of Ruthenia
Berestia (west of Brest Oblast, south of Podlaskie Voivodeship)
35px Galicia (Lviv Oblast, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ternopil Oblast)
Red Ruthenia
Prykarpattia (Boikos and Lemkos, collectively Rusyns)
Pokuttia (Hutsuls)
35px Podolia (Khmelnytsky Oblast, Vinnytsia Oblast, north of Odesa Oblast, west of Kirovohrad Oblast), Lesser Poland
35px Zaporizhzhia (Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, east of Kirovohrad Oblast), New Serbia, Central Ukraine
Pontic steppe, Wild Fields, New Russia
Donbas ("Donets Basin") (Donetsk Oblast, Luhanks Oblast), also known as Cuman Land, Slavo-Serbia, Eastern Ukraine
Azov Littoral (Zaporizhzhia Oblast, south of Donetsk Oblast, southwest of Rostov Oblast)
Black Sea Littoral, Southern Ukraine
Over-Buh, Yedisan, Transnistria (Odesa Oblast, Mykolaiv Oblast)
Bugeac (Budzhak/Bujak) (southwest of Odesa Oblast)
Tavria (Kherson Oblast)
Crimea (Krym), also known as Tavria, Taurida
35px Transcarpathia / Carpathian Ruthenia, Subcarpathian Rus, Carpatho-Ukraine and many others
Maramureș
Northern Bukovina (Chernivtsi Oblast)

Contemporary regions

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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).

File:Central Ukr.png|Central Ukraine

File:Eastern Ukr.png|Eastern Ukraine

File:Northern Ukr.png|Northern Ukraine

File:Southern Ukr.png|Southern Ukraine

File:Western Ukr.png|Western Ukraine