Ukrainian Historical Regions - Traditional Regions

Traditional Regions

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

  • Volhynia (Volyn’)
  • Galicia (Halychyna)
  • Podolia (Podillya)
  • Sloboda Ukraine (Slobozhanshchyna, "free land")
  • Zaporizhzhia ("beyond the rapids" of the Dnieper)
  • Donbass ("Donets Basin")
  • Black Sea Lands
  • Crimea (Krym)

In the Carpathian Mountains (see also Ruthenia, Rusyns):

  • Lemko region (Lemkivshchyna)
  • Boiko region (Boikivshchyna)
  • Hutsul region (Hutsul’shchyna)
  • Transcarpathia / Carpathian Ruthenia (Zakarpattia)
  • Prykarpattia

Regions historically inhabited by Ukrainians (mostly with other nations), which are partly or wholly outside modern Ukraine:

  • San River region
  • Chełm (Kholm) region
  • Southern Podlasie (Podlasie)
  • Polesie (Polissia)
  • Bukovina (Bukovyna)
  • Southern Basarabia (Budjak/Southern Bessarabia)
  • Northern Caucasus (also called Pink Ukraine)
  • Volga Region (around Saratov, called Yellow Ukraine)
  • Siberia (city of Omsk, Grey Ukraine)
  • Russian Far East (see Green Ukraine)
Further information: Ukrainian diaspora

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