Eastern Ukraine
Eastern Ukraine is the industrial coal-mining region of Ukraine, home to much of the country's ethnic Russian population.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Kharkiv and Donetsk.
Kharkiv
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Kharkiv is a major city in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine and is the second largest city in Ukraine with a population of over 1.5 million inhabitants. The city is in the northeast of the Ukraine.
Donetsk
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Donetsk, formerly known as Aleksandrovka, Yuzivka, Stalin, and Stalino, is an industrial city in eastern Ukraine located on the Kalmius River in Donetsk Oblast, which is currently occupied by Russia as the capital of the Donetsk People's Republic.
Dnipro
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Dnipro, until May 2016 known as Dnipropetrovsk or Dnepropetrovsk, is a major industrial city in Eastern Ukraine. It is named after the Dnieper River than runs through it. You may find some interesting and useful information about Dnipro on unofficial website.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Donetsk Oblast and Luhansk Oblast.
Donetsk Oblast
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The Donetsk Oblast is a region in Eastern Ukraine that is partially occupied by Russia, which claimed in 2022 to have annexed it.
Luhansk Oblast
Zaporizhzhia
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Zaporizhzhia, formerly known as Aleksandrovsk or Oleksandrivsk until 1921, is a city in southeast Ukraine, situated on the banks of the Dnieper River. It is the administrative centre of Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
Kryvyi Rih
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Kryvyi Rih, is an industrial city of 660,000 people in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine. Its principal industry is steel manufacturing.
Melitopol
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Melitopol is in Zaporizhzhia Oblast in Eastern Ukraine, though under Russian control since March 2022. It is in the south of the Zaporizhzhia region, 30 km from the Sea of Azov and 5 km from the Molochny estuary of the Sea of Azov.
Berdyansk
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Berdyansk is in Pryazovia, Eastern Ukraine. It is a spa therapy resort. There are more than 70 health institutions: health centers, children’s sports and recreational facilities, recreation centers, which can accommodate at least 15,000 people.
Henichesk
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Henichesk is a port city along the Sea of Azov in Kherson Oblast, southern Ukraine. It serves as the administrative centre of Henichesk Raion. Since 9 November 2022, it has served as the temporary administrative centre of the Russian occupation administration in the region.
Pavlohrad
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Pavlohrad is a city in eastern Ukraine, located within Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. It serves as the administrative center of Pavlohrad Raion. Its population is approximately 101,430.
Eastern Ukraine
- Type: region with 14,500,000 residents
- Description: geographic region
- Also known as: “east Ukraine” and “Ukraine east”
- Location: Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude of center
48.6° or 48° 36′ northLongitude of center
37.7° or 37° 42′ eastPopulation
14,500,000Wikidata ID
Q181386
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Eastern Ukraine” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شرق أوكرانيا”
- Basque: “Ekialdeko Ukraina”
- Belarusian: “усход Украіны”
- Belarusian: “Усходняя Украіна”
- Belarusian: “Усходняя Ўкраіна”
- Catalan: “Ucraïna Oriental”
- Chinese: “乌克兰东部”
- Chinese: “東烏克蘭”
- Chinese: “烏克蘭東部”
- Czech: “východní Ukrajina”
- Czech: “Východní Ukrajina”
- Danish: “Østukraine”
- Dimli (individual language): “Ukrayna Rocvetışi”
- Dutch: “Oost-Oekraïne”
- Esperanto: “Orienta Ukrainio”
- Estonian: “Ida-Ukraina”
- Finnish: “Itä-Ukraina”
- French: “Ukraine orientale”
- German: “Ostukraine”
- Greek: “Ανατολική Ουκρανία”
- Hebrew: “מזרח אוקראינה”
- Irish: “oirthear na hÚcráine”
- Italian: “Ucraina orientale”
- Japanese: “ウクライナ東部”
- Japanese: “東ウクライナ”
- Korean: “동우크라이나”
- Latvian: “Austrumukraina”
- Malay: “Ukraine timur”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Øst-Ukraina”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aust-Ukraina”
- Norwegian: “Øst-Ukraina”
- Persian: “شرق اوکراین”
- Polish: “wschodnia Ukraina”
- Russian: “Восточная Украина”
- Serbian: “Источна Украјина”
- Slovenian: “vzhodna Ukrajina”
- Spanish: “Region oriental de Ucrania”
- Spanish: “Región oriental de Ucrania”
- Spanish: “Ucrania oriental”
- Swedish: “Östra Ukraina”
- Turkish: “Doğu Ukrayna”
- Ukrainian: “Схід України”
- Ukrainian: “Східна Україна”
- Venetian: “Ucràina orientałe”
- Vietnamese: “Đông Ukraina”
- Yue Chinese: “東烏克蘭”
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