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{{Short description|List of historical regions in Ukraine}}
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[[File:Ukraine-Historical regions.svg|thumb|275px|Traditional regions]]

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

==Main historical regions==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left"
|-
! Name
! Description
|-
| style="width:5em;" | Black Sea Littoral
| style="width:25em;" | Other names: [[Yedisan]], Ochakov Oblast, Khanschyna, [[Ottoman Ukraine]].
|-
| style="width:5em;" | [[Budjak]]
| style="width:25em;" | name originated from Turkish, meaning "borderland”
|-
| style="width:5em;" | [[Bukovyna]]
| style="width:25em;" | Other names: [[Shypyntsi]] Land.
|-
| style="width:5em;" | [[Donbas]]
| style="width:25em;" | Other names: Donechchyna
|-
| style="width:5em;" | [[Galicia (Eastern Europe)|Halychyna]]
| style="width:25em;" | Other names: Galicia, Cis–Carpathian (east of the ridge).
|-
| style="width:5em;" | [[Principality of Kiev|Kyiv land]]
| style="width:25em;" | Other names: Duchy of Ruthenia, Ruthenia proper.
|-
| style="width:5em;" | [[Siveria]]<ref>Русина 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] // [[Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine|Енциклопедія історії України]]: у 10 т. / редкол.: [[Valeriy Smoliy|В. А. Смолій]] (голова) та ін.; [[NASU Institute of History of Ukraine|Інститут історії України НАН]]</ref>
| style="width:25em;" | Other names: Chernihiv land, Chernihiv-Siveria. 
|-
| style="width:5em;" | [[Podolia]]
| style="width:25em;" | Podolia means "Lower Land".
|-
| style="width:5em;" | [[Sloboda Ukraine]]
| style="width:25em;" | 
|-
| style="width:5em;" | [[Taurida]]
| style="width:25em;" | Now [[Crimea]]
|-
| style="width:5em;" | [[Carpathian Ruthenia|Trans–<br>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:5em;" | [[Volhynia]]
| style="width:25em;" | Other names: Vladimir, Volyn, [[Lodomeria]].
|-
| style="width:5em;" | [[Zaporizhian Sich]]
| style="width:25em;" | 
|}

== Traditional regions ==
The traditional names of the regions of Ukraine are important geographic, historical, and ethnographic identifiers.
* [[Dnieper Ukraine]], or [[Great Ukraine]]
** 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
** 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)
* Ruthenia, Kingdom of Rus, Western Ukraine, Western Oblast, Lesser Poland
** [[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)
** [[Galicia (Eastern Europe)|Galicia]] (Lviv Oblast, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ternopil Oblast)
***[[Red Ruthenia]]
*** [[Prykarpattia]] ([[Boiko]]s and [[Lemko]]s, collectively [[Rusyns]])
*** [[Pokuttia]] ([[Hutsul]]s)
* [[Podolia]] (Khmelnytsky Oblast, Vinnytsia Oblast, north of Odesa Oblast, west of Kirovohrad Oblast), Lesser Poland
* [[Zaporizhzhia (region)|Zaporizhzhia]] (Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, east of Kirovohrad Oblast), [[New Serbia (historical province)|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)
*** [[Budjak|Bugeac]] (Budzhak/Bujak) (southwest of Odesa Oblast)
*** Tavria (Kherson Oblast)
* [[Crimea]] (''Krym''), also known as Tavria, [[Taurida]]
* [[Carpathian Ruthenia|Transcarpathia / Carpathian Ruthenia]], Subcarpathian Rus, [[Carpatho-Ukraine]] and many others
** [[Maramureș]]
* Northern [[Bukovina]] (Chernivtsi Oblast)

==Contemporary regions==
[[File:Ukraine KIIS-Regional-division.png|thumb|{{legend|Gold|Gold – [[Central Ukraine]]}}{{legend|RoyalBlue|Blue – [[Eastern Ukraine]]}}{{legend|CornflowerBlue|Light blue – [[Southern Ukraine]]}}{{legend|Orange|Orange – [[Western Ukraine]]}}<br />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 [[Carpathian Ruthenia|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 Oblast|Chernihiv]]/[[Sumy Oblast|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]]).

<gallery>
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
</gallery>

== Historical states ==
{{main |History of Ukraine}}

* [[Kievan Rus]] (a state of [[Early East Slavs]]), (879–1240)
* [[Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia]] (1199–1349)
* [[Cossack Hetmanate]] (1649–1764)
* [[Central Rada]] of the [[Ukrainian People's Republic]] (1917–1918)
* [[Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets]] (1917–1918)
* [[Odesa Soviet Republic]] (1918)
* [[Donetsk–Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic]] (1918)
* [[Ukrainian Soviet Republic]] (1918)
* [[Ukrainian State|Hetmanate of the Ukrainian State]] (1918)
* [[West Ukrainian People's Republic]] (1918–1919)
* [[Kholodny Yar Republic]] (1919-1922)
* [[Directorate of Ukraine|Directorate]] of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1918–1920)
* [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic]] (1919–1991)
* [[Galician Soviet Socialist Republic]] (1920)
* [[Carpatho-Ukraine]] (1938–1939)
* [[Ukrainian national government (1941)|Ukrainian national government]] (1941)
* [[Reichskommissariat Ukraine]] (1941-1944)
* [[Ukraine]] (1991–present)

==See also==
{{Portal|Ukraine}}
* [[Geography of Ukraine]]
* [[ISO 3166-2:UA]]
* [[List of places named after people#Ukraine|List of places named after people (Ukraine)]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}
* Paul Robert Magosci, ''Ukraine: A Historical Atlas'', 1985.  [[University of Toronto]] Press, Toronto.  {{ISBN|0-8020-3428-4}}
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