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


ADMINISTRATIVE SUBDIVISION


Administratively, Ukraine is currently subdivided into twenty-four Oblast s (''oblasti'', Province s), one Autonomous Republic (''avtonomna respublika''), and two cities (''mista'', singular ''misto'') with special legal status.

Oblasts:




# Cherkasy
# Chernihiv
# Chernivtsi

  1. Dnipropetrovsk
  2. Donetsk
  3. Ivano-Frankivsk
  4. Kharkiv
  5. Kherson
  6. Khmelnytskyi
  7. Kirovohrad
  8. Kiev Oblast
  9. Luhansk



  1. Lviv
  2. Mykolaiv
  3. Odessa
  4. Poltava
  5. Rivne
  6. Sumy
  7. Ternopil'
  8. Vinnytsia
  9. Volyn
  10. Zakarpattia
  11. Zaporizhzhia
  12. Zhytomyr





Autonomous republic:

  1. Crimea


Municipalities with special legal status:


TRADITIONAL REGIONS


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


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


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



OTHER HISTORIC REGIONS AND NAMES


  • Little Russia (), 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 (), colony of the Russian Empire in the depopulated steppes, in the south-east of modern-day Ukraine ('' Dyke Pole '', "the wild field")



HISTORICAL UKRAINIAN STATES




SEE ALSO



REFERENCES

  • Paul Robert Magosci, ''Ukraine: A Historical Atlas'', 1985. University of Toronto Press, Toronto. ISBN 0-8020-3428-4