Regions of Ukraine

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For a modern political party in Ukraine and its parliamentory faction called "Regions of Ukraine" see Party of Regions

A list of the various regions of Ukraine and/or inhabited by Ukrainians and their ancestors throughout history.

1 Administrative subdivision
2 Traditional regions
3 Other historic regions and names
4 Historical Ukrainian states
5 See also
6 References

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Administrative subdivision

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Administratively, Ukraine is currently 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:

Crimea

Municipalities with special legal status:

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Traditional regions

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

Volhynia (Volyn’)
Galicia (Halychyna)
Podolia (Podillya)
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)
Polesia (Polissia)
Bukovina (Bukovyna)
Basarabia (Bessarabia)
Don river valley
Kuban’

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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 (note: left-bank and right bank refer to the bank of the river when facing downstream):
- 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")