Luhansk Oblast
The Luhansk Oblast is a mainly Russian-occupied oblast in Eastern Ukraine. Part of the oblast was governed as the Luhansk People's Republic, a self-proclaimed state that was governed by pro-Russian separatists until Russia annexed it in 2022.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Luhansk and Alchevsk.
Luhansk
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Luhansk or Lugansk is the capital of Luhansk Oblast. All information given below dates from before fighting began in 2014. Given the volatility of the situation, more recent information is not reliable.
Alchevsk
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Alchevsk is a city and the nominal administrative center of Alchevsk Raion in Luhansk Oblast, in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. It is located 45 kilometres from the administrative center of the oblast, Luhansk.
Krasnodon
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Krasnodon is a city of 43,000 people in the Luhansk People's Republic. It is a center of the coal mining industry of the Donbass region.
Luhansk Oblast
- Type: State with 2,100,000 residents
- Description: administrative division (oblast) in eastern Ukraine
- Also known as: “Luganskaja oblastj”, “Luhanščyna”, “Luhanshchyna”, “Luhansk”, “Luhanśka oblastj”, “Voroshilov Oblast”, “Voroshilovgrad Oblast”, and “Voroshilovgradskaya Oblast’”
- Neighbors: Belgorod Oblast, Donetsk Oblast, Rostov Oblast, and Voronezh Oblast
- Categories: oblast of Ukraine, disputed territory, and locality
- Location: Eastern Ukraine, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude of center
49.2725° or 49° 16′ 21″ northLongitude of center
38.915° or 38° 54′ 54″ eastPopulation
2,100,000Elevation
101 metres (331 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 683681613OpenStreetMap feature
place=state
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Luhansk Oblast” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Loehansk-oblast”
- Albanian: “Rajoni i Luhanskut”
- Arabic: “لوهانسك أوبلاست”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة لوهانسك”
- Armenian: “Լուգանսկի մարզ”
- Asturian: “Luganschyna”
- Asturian: “Oblast de Lugansk”
- Asturian: “Óblast de Lugansk”
- Asturian: “província de Lugansk”
- Azerbaijani: “Luqansk vilayəti”
- Bashkir: “Луганск өлкәһе”
- Basque: “Luhanskeko oblasta”
- Belarusian: “Варашылаўградская вобласць”
- Belarusian: “Луганская вобласць”
- Belarusian: “Луганская вобласьць”
- Bengali: “লুহানস্ক ওব্লাস্ট”
- Bhojpuri: “लुहांस्क ओब्लास्ट”
- Bhojpuri: “लोहान्स्क ओब्लास्त”
- Bhojpuri: “लोहांस्क ओब्लास्ट”
- Bhojpuri: “लोहांस्क ओब्लास्त”
- Bosnian: “Luganska oblast”
- Bulgarian: “Луганска област”
- Catalan: “Luhànsxina”
- Catalan: “óblast de Luhansk”
- Catalan: “Óblast de Luhansk”
- Catalan: “província de Luhansk”
- Cebuano: “Luhans’ka Oblast‘”
- Cebuano: “Luhans’ka Oblast’”
- Central Kurdish: “لوھانسک ئۆبلاست”
- Chechen: “Луганскан область”
- Chinese: “Luhansk Chiu”
- Chinese: “卢汉斯克州”
- Chinese: “卢甘斯克州”
- Chinese: “盧甘斯克州”
- Crimean Tatar: “Lugansk vilâyeti”
- Croatian: “Luganska oblast” (historical)
- Croatian: “Luhanska oblast”
- Czech: “Luganská oblast”
- Czech: “Luhanská oblast”
- Czech: “Vorošilovgradská oblast”
- Danish: “Lugansk oblast”
- Danish: “Luhansk oblast”
- Dutch: “Loehansk”
- Dutch: “Oblast Loehansk”
- Eastern Mari: “Луганск вел”
- Erzya: “Луганскоень ёнкс”
- Esperanto: “Luganska provinco”
- Esperanto: “Luhanska oblast‘”
- Esperanto: “Luhanska provinco”
- Estonian: “Luganski oblast”
- Estonian: “Luhanski oblast”
- Finnish: “Luganskin alue”
- Finnish: “Luhanskin alue”
- French: “oblast de Lougansk”
- French: “oblast de Louhansk”
- French: “Oblast de Louhansk”
- Georgian: “ლუგანსკის ოლქი”
- Georgian: “ლუჰანსკის ოლქი”
- German: “Luganskaja oblast”
- German: “Luhansk”
- German: “Luhanska oblast”
- German: “Oblast Luhansk”
- German: “Oblast Woroschilowgrad”
- German: “UA-09”
- Greek: “Όμπλαστ του Λουγκάνσκ”
- Greek: “Όμπλαστ του Λουχάνσκ”
- Greek: “Περιφέρεια Λουγκάνσκ”
- Gujarati: “લુહાન્સ્ક ઓબ્લાસ્ટ”
- Hebrew: “לוהנסק”
- Hebrew: “מחוז לוהנסק”
- Hindi: “लुहान्स्क ओब्लास्ट”
- Hindi: “लुहांस्क ओब्लास्ट”
- Hungarian: “Luhanszki terület”
- Icelandic: “Lúhanska Oblast”
- Icelandic: “Lúhanskfylki”
- Ido: “Provinco Luhansk”
- Indonesian: “Oblast Luhansk”
- Interlingua: “Region Luhansk”
- Irish: “Cúige Luhansk”
- Italian: “Oblast di Luhans’k”
- Italian: “Oblast di Luhansk”
- Italian: “Oblast‘ di Lugansk”
- Italian: “oblast‘ di Luhans’k”
- Italian: “Oblast‘ di Luhans’k”
- Italian: “Oblast’ di Luhans’k”
- Japanese: “ヴォロシロヴグラート州”
- Japanese: “ヴォロシロヴグラード州”
- Japanese: “ヴォロシロヴフラード州”
- Japanese: “ルハーンシク州”
- Japanese: “ルハンシク州”
- Japanese: “ルハンスク州”
- Kannada: “ಲುಹನ್ಸ್ಕ್ ಒಬ್ಲಾಸ್ಟ್”
- Kazakh: “Луганск облысы”
- Kirghiz: “Луганск областы”
- Kirghiz: “Луганск облусу”
- Korean: “루한스크주”
- Korean: “루한시크 주”
- Kotava: “UkrainaLuganskWinka”
- Kurdish: “Oblasta Luhanskê”
- Kurdish: “Oblasta Lûhanskê”
- Ladin: “Oblast de Lugansk”
- Latin: “Regio Luganskensis”
- Latvian: “Luganskas apgabals”
- Latvian: “Luhanskas apgabals”
- Limburgan: “Oblas Loehansk”
- Lithuanian: “Lugansko sritis”
- Lithuanian: “Luhansko sritis”
- Lombard: “Oblast de Luhans’k”
- Luxembourgish: “Oblast Luhansk”
- Macedonian: “Луганска Област”
- Malay: “Luhansk Oblast”
- Manx: “Lugansk Oblast”
- Manx: “Luganskaja oblastj”
- Manx: “Luhanščyna”
- Manx: “Luhanshchyna”
- Manx: “Queiggey Lugansk”
- Manx: “Queiggey Luhansk”
- Manx: “Queiggey Voroshilovgrad”
- Manx: “Voroshilovgrad Oblast”
- Marathi: “लुहान्स्क ओब्लास्त”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lugansk séng”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Luhans’k oblast‘”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Luhansk séng”
- Mingrelian: “ლუგანსკიშ ოლქი”
- Mingrelian: “ლუჰანსკიშ ოლქი”
- Mongolian: “Луганск муж”
- Mongolian: “Луханск муж”
- Northern Frisian: “Luhansjk”
- Northern Luri: “لوهانسک”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Luhansk oblast”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Luhansk oblast”
- Norwegian: “Luhansk oblast”
- Ossetian: “Ворошиловграды облæст”
- Ossetian: “Луганскы облæст”
- Ossetian: “Лугансчы облæст”
- Persian: “استان لوهانسک”
- Polish: “obwód ługański”
- Polish: “Obwód ługański”
- Polish: “obwód woroszyłowgradzki”
- Portuguese: “Luhansk”
- Portuguese: “Oblast de Lugansk”
- Portuguese: “Oblast de Luhansk”
- Portuguese: “Óblast de Luhansk”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Lugansk”
- Romanian: “regiunea Luhansk”
- Russian: “Luganskaya Oblast’”
- Russian: “Ворошиловградская область”
- Russian: “Ворошиловоградская область”
- Russian: “Луганская область”
- Russian: “Луганщина”
- Rusyn: “Луганьска область”
- Scots: “Luhansk Oblast”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Luhanska Oblast”
- Serbian: “Luganska oblast”
- Serbian: “Луганска област”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Luganska oblast”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Luhanska oblast”
- Sinhala: “ලුහන්ස්ක් ප්රාන්තය”
- Slovak: “Luhanská oblasť”
- Slovak: “Vorošilovgradská oblasť”
- Slovenian: “Luganska oblast”
- Spanish: “Luhans’k”
- Spanish: “Oblast de Lugansk”
- Spanish: “Óblast de Lugansk”
- Spanish: “Oblast de Luhans’k”
- Spanish: “Oblast de Luhansk”
- Spanish: “Óblast de Luhansk”
- Swedish: “Lugansk oblast”
- Swedish: “Luhansk oblast”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Луганск”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Луҳанск”
- Tamil: “லுகான்ஸ்கா மாகாணம்”
- Tamil: “லுஹான்ஸ்க் ஒப்ளாஸ்ட்”
- Tatar: “Луганск өлкәсе”
- Telugu: “లూహాంక్స్ ఓబ్లాస్ట్”
- Thai: “แคว้นลูฮันสก์”
- Turkish: “Lugansk Oblastı”
- Turkish: “Luhansk Oblastı”
- Ukrainian: “Luhanska Oblast”
- Ukrainian: “Луганська область”
- Ukrainian: “Луганська Область”
- Ukrainian: “Луганщина”
- Urdu: “لوہانسک اوبلاست”
- Uzbek: “Lugansk viloyati”
- Uzbek: “Lugansk Viloyati”
- Vietnamese: “Luhansk”
- Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Luhansk”
- Vietnamese: “Vùng Luhansk”
- Waray (Philippines): “Luhansk Oblast”
- Western Panjabi: “لوہانسک اوبلاست”
- Wu Chinese: “卢甘斯克州”
- Yakut: “Луганскай уобалас”
- Yiddish: “וואראשילאווגראד גובערניע”
- Yiddish: “לוגאנסק גובערניע”
- Yiddish: “לוגאנשטשינא”
- Yue Chinese: “盧甘斯克州”
- “लोहान्स्क ओब्लास्त”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Luhansk Oblast”. Photo: Олександр Олександрович Павленко, CC BY-SA 4.0.