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)
Read more about this topic: Ukrainian Historical Regions
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