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Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in , the largest country entirely within Europe, with a very rich culture and history. Ukraine has a range of great attractions to offer.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Kyiv and Lviv.

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is the capital of Ukraine, as well as the country's largest and most vibrant city. It is a city where the golden domes of Orthodox cathedrals sit amidst royal palaces and the grey concrete of Soviet Brutalist buildings.

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is in and used to be the capital of East Galicia. It's the biggest city of the region and a major Ukrainian cultural centre on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

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, is a seaport on the Black Sea coast of Ukraine. The city is home to over a million people. Its chief attraction to visitors is the graceful old town, laid out on a grid pattern in the early 19th century, with its many churches, galleries and museums.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Western Ukraine and Eastern Ukraine.

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makes up about a quarter of Ukraine and has the closest affinities with of all Ukraine's regions.

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is the industrial coal-mining region of Ukraine, home to much of the country's ethnic Russian population.

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is the region in the center north of Ukraine, and is the country's cultural, economic, and political center.

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is a peninsula jutting into the south of Ukraine. Long known for its idyllic and luxurious beach resorts, it was once a playground for the Imperial Russian and Soviet elites.

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refers, generally, to the territories in the South of Ukraine. The territory usually corresponds with the Soviet economical district, the Southern Economical District of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

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The or Donbass is a disputed region in . The whole region is a war zone claimed by both Ukraine and .
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Ukraine

Latitude of center
49° north
Longitude of center
32° east
Population
41,300,000
Area
603,700 km² (233,090 miles²)
Elevation
147 metres (482 feet)
Capital
Currency
Hryvnia (UAH)
Phone code
.ua
Internet domain
380
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1648342273
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
690791
Wiki­data ID
Q212
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Ukraine” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Украина”
  • Achinese: “Ukraina”
  • Adyghe: “Украинэ”
  • Afrikaans: “Oekraine”
  • Afrikaans: “Oekraïne”
  • Akan: “Ukren”
  • Albanian: “Ukraina”
  • Albanian: “Ukrainë”
  • Amharic: “ዩክሬን”
  • Amis: “Ukraine”
  • Angika: “युक्रेन”
  • Arabic: “أوكرانيا”
  • Arabic: “اوكرانيا”
  • Aragonese: “Ucraína”
  • Armenian: “Ուկրաինա”
  • Arpitan: “Ucrayena”
  • Arpitan: “Ucrèna”
  • Assamese: “ইউক্ৰেইন”
  • Asturian: “Ucraína”
  • Asturian: “Ucrania”
  • Atayal: “Ukraine”
  • Avaric: “Украина”
  • Awadhi: “युक्रेन”
  • Aymara: “Ukraniya”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ukrayna”
  • Balinese: “Ukraina”
  • Bambara: “Ukɛrɛni”
  • Bambara: “Ukrain”
  • Banjar: “Ukraina”
  • Bashkir: “Украина”
  • Basque: “Ukraina”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Ukraina”
  • Batak Toba: “Ukraina”
  • Bavarian: “Ukraine”
  • Belarusian: “Украіна”
  • Bengali: “ইউক্রেইন”
  • Bengali: “ইউক্রেন”
  • Bengali: “উক্রাইনা”
  • Betawi: “Ukrain”
  • Bhojpuri: “युक्रेन”
  • Bhojpuri: “यूक्रेन”
  • Bishnupriya: “ইউক্রেন”
  • Bislama: “Ukraine”
  • Bislama: “Yukren”
  • Bosnian: “Ukrajina”
  • Breton: “Ukraina”
  • Buginese: “Ukraine”
  • Buginese: “ᨕᨘᨀᨑᨕᨗᨊᨙ”
  • Bulgarian: “Украйна”
  • Burmese: “ယူကရိန်း”
  • Burmese: “ယူကရိန်းနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Ucraïna”
  • Cebuano: “Ukranya”
  • Central Bikol: “Ukranya”
  • Central Kanuri: “Ukraine”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئوکراین”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئوکراینا”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئۆکرانیا”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئۆکراینا”
  • Chamorro: “Ukrania”
  • Chavacano: “Ucrania”
  • Chavacano: “Ukrania”
  • Chechen: “Украина”
  • Cherokee: “ᏳᎧᎴᏂ”
  • Cherokee: “ᏳᎧᏪᏂ”
  • Cherokee: “ᏳᎬᎳᎢᏅ”
  • Cheyenne: “Ukraine”
  • Chinese: “Ukraina”
  • Chinese: “Wūkèlán”
  • Chinese: “乌克兰/烏克蘭”
  • Chinese: “乌克兰”
  • Chinese: “烏克蘭”
  • Church Slavic: “Оукраина”
  • Church Slavic: “Ѹкраина”
  • Chuvash: “Украина”
  • Cornish: “Ukrayn”
  • Corsican: “Ucraina”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Ukraina”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Ukrayna”
  • Croatian: “Ukrajina”
  • Czech: “Ukrajina”
  • Dagbani: “Ukraine”
  • Danish: “Ukraine”
  • Dhivehi: “ޔުކްރެއިން”
  • Dhivehi: “ޔޫކްރެއިން”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Ukrayna”
  • Dinka: “Ukraine”
  • Dotyali: “युक्रेन”
  • Dutch: “Oekraiene”
  • Dutch: “Oekraine”
  • Dutch: “Oekraïne”
  • Dzongkha: “ཡུ་ཀརེན”
  • Dzongkha: “ཡུ་ཀེ་རེན།”
  • Eastern Mari: “Украина”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اوكرانيا”
  • Erzya: “Украина”
  • Esperanto: “Ukrainio”
  • Esperanto: “Ukrainujo”
  • Esperanto: “Ukrajno”
  • Estonian: “Ukraina”
  • Ewe: “Ukraine nutome”
  • Ewe: “Ukraine”
  • Extremaduran: “Ucrania”
  • Extremaduran: “Ucránia”
  • Faroese: “Ukraina”
  • Faroese: “Ukreina”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Ukraine”
  • Fijian: “Ukraine”
  • Finnish: “Ukraina”
  • French: “Ukr.”
  • French: “Ukraine”
  • Friulian: “Ucraine”
  • Fulah: “Ukereen”
  • Fulah: “Ukrayiina”
  • Gagauz: “Ukraına”
  • Gagauz: “Ukrayna”
  • Galician: “Ucraína”
  • Gan Chinese: “烏克蘭”
  • Ganda: “Ukraine”
  • Ganda: “Yukrein”
  • Ganda: “Yukurayine”
  • Georgian: “უკრაინა”
  • German: “Ukraine”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Ukraine”
  • Gilaki: “اۊکراین”
  • Goan Konkani: “Ukraine”
  • Goan Konkani: “युक्रेन”
  • Gothic: “𐌿𐌺𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌽𐌰”
  • Gothic: “𐌿𐌺𐍂𐌰𐌾𐌽𐌰”
  • Greek: “Ουκρανία”
  • Guarani: “Ukyaña”
  • Guarani: “Ukyáña”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Oukrèn”
  • Gujarati: “યુક્રેન”
  • Gujarati: “યૂક્રેઇન”
  • Gun: “Ukraine”
  • Haitian: “Ikrèn”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Ukraina”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Ukraine”
  • Hausa: “Ukraniya”
  • Hausa: “Yukaran”
  • Hawaiian: “ʻUkelena”
  • Hebrew: “אוקראינה”
  • Hiligaynon: “Ukranya”
  • Hindi: “उक्रेन”
  • Hindi: “युक्रेन”
  • Hindi: “यूक्रेन”
  • Hungarian: “Ukrajna”
  • Icelandic: “Úkraína”
  • Ido: “Ukraina”
  • Ido: “Ukrainia”
  • Igbo: “Ukraine”
  • Igbo: “Yukrain”
  • Iloko: “Ukrainia”
  • Iloko: “Ukrania”
  • Inari Sami: “Ukraina”
  • Indonesian: “Ukraina”
  • Indonesian: “Ukrania”
  • Ingush: “Украина”
  • Interlingua: “Ukraina”
  • Interlingue: “Ucraina”
  • Inuktitut: “ᑯᑯᓯ ᓄᓇ”
  • Inuktitut: “ᔪᑯᕋᐃᓐ”
  • Inupiaq: “Ukraine”
  • Inupiaq: “Yukrain”
  • Irish: “an Úcráin”
  • Irish: “An Úcráin”
  • Italian: “Ucraina”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Yuukrien”
  • Japanese: “ウクライナ”
  • Japanese: “ウクライナ共和国”
  • Javanese: “Ukraina”
  • Javanese: “Ukrania”
  • Kabardian: “Украинэ”
  • Kabardian: “Хуэхуэлей”
  • Kabiyè: “Ukurɛnɩ”
  • Kabyle: “Ukranya”
  • Kabyle: “Ukrayin”
  • Kalaallisut: “Ukraina”
  • Kalaallisut: “Ukraine”
  • Kalmyk: “Украинмудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಉಕ್ರೈನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಯುಕ್ರೇನ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Ukraina”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Украина”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Украина”
  • Kashmiri: “یوٗرِکین”
  • Kashmiri: “یوٗکریٖن”
  • Kashubian: “Ùkrajina”
  • Kazakh: “Ukraina”
  • Kazakh: “Украина”
  • Khmer: “អ៊ុយក្រែន”
  • Kikuyu: “Ukraine”
  • Kikuyu: “Ukraini”
  • Kinaray-A: “Ukranya”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Ikerene”
  • Kirghiz: “Украина”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Украина”
  • Komi: “Украина”
  • Kongo: “Uklenyi”
  • Kongo: “Ukrayina”
  • Korean: “우크라이나 공화국”
  • Korean: “우크라이나”
  • Kotava: “Ukraina”
  • Kurdish: “Ukrayna”
  • Kurdish: “Ûkrayna”
  • Ladin: “Ucraina”
  • Ladino: “Ukraina”
  • Lak: “Украина”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດອູແກຣນ”
  • Lao: “ຢູເຄຣນ”
  • Latgalian: “Ukraina”
  • Latin: “Ucraina”
  • Latvian: “Ukraina”
  • Lezghian: “Украина”
  • Ligurian: “Ucrainn-a”
  • Limburgan: “Oekraïne”
  • Lingala: “Ikrɛni”
  • Lingala: “Ukraine”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Ucraina”
  • Literary Chinese: “烏克蘭”
  • Lithuanian: “Ukraina”
  • Liv: “Ukraina”
  • Livvi: “Ukrainu”
  • Lojban: “vurgu’e”
  • Lombard: “Ucraina”
  • Low German: “Oekraïne”
  • Low German: “Ukraine”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Ukraina”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Ukreni”
  • Luxembourgish: “Ukrain”
  • Luxembourgish: “Ukraine”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Ucraina”
  • Macedonian: “Украина”
  • Madurese: “Ukraina”
  • Magahi: “युक्रेन”
  • Maithili: “युक्रेन”
  • Maithili: “यूक्रेन”
  • Malagasy: “Okraina”
  • Malay: “Ukraine”
  • Malay: “يوکرين”
  • Malayalam: “ഉക്രെയ്‌ൻ”
  • Malayalam: “ഉക്രൈൻ”
  • Malayalam: “യുക്രെയിന്‍”
  • Maltese: “l-Ukrajna”
  • Maltese: “Ukrajna”
  • Manipuri: “ꯌꯨꯀ꯭ꯔꯦꯟ”
  • Manipuri: “ꯎꯀ꯭ꯔꯥꯏꯟ”
  • Manx: “Ookraan”
  • Manx: “Ookraane”
  • Manx: “Pobblaght ny h-Ookraan”
  • Manx: “Pobblaght ny h-Ookraane”
  • Manx: “Pobblaght yn Ookraan”
  • Manx: “Pobblaght yn Ookraane”
  • Manx: “Ukraina”
  • Manx: “Ukraine”
  • Manx: “yn Ookraan”
  • Manx: “Yn Ookraan”
  • Manx: “Yn Ookraane”
  • Maori: “Ūkareinga”
  • Marathi: “युक्रेन”
  • Mazanderani: “اکراین”
  • Mazanderani: “اوکراین”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Ukraina”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Ukraine”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ú-khek-lân”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ukraina”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ukraine”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ukrayina”
  • Minangkabau: “Ukraina”
  • Mingrelian: “უკრაინა”
  • Mirandese: “Oucránia”
  • Moksha: “Украина”
  • Mongolian: “Украин”
  • Mongolian: “Украйн”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ؤكرانيا”
  • Mossi: “Ukraine”
  • N'Ko: “ߎߞߙߍߣߌ߲߫”
  • Narom: “Ukraîne”
  • Nauru: “Ukraine”
  • Navajo: “Biʼééʼ Łichííʼí Bikéyah Yázhí”
  • Navajo: “Dzítso Hatsohnii Bikéyah”
  • Neapolitan: “Ucraina”
  • Nepali: “युक्रेन”
  • Newari: “युक्रेन”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Yukrain”
  • North Ndebele: “Yukreini”
  • Northern Frisian: “Ukraine”
  • Northern Luri: “اوکراین”
  • Northern Sami: “Ukraina”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ukraina”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ukraina”
  • Norwegian: “Ukraina”
  • Novial: “Ukraina”
  • Nyanja: “Ukraine”
  • Obolo: “Yukeren”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ucraïna”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ucràina”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܘܟܪܢܝܐ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܘܩܪܐܝܢܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ucrægna”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ucræġna”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ucræȝna”
  • Oriya: “ୟୁକ୍ରେନ”
  • Oriya: “ୟୁକ୍ରେନ୍”
  • Oromo: “Yuukireen”
  • Ossetian: “Украинæ”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ယူကရေင်းခမ်းထီ”
  • Paiwan: “iyukurin”
  • Paiwan: “ukelan”
  • Pampanga: “Ucrania”
  • Pampanga: “Ukraine”
  • Pampanga: “Ukrania”
  • Pampanga: “Ukranya”
  • Pangasinan: “Ukraniya”
  • Pangasinan: “Ukranya”
  • Panjabi: “ਯੂਕਰੇਨ”
  • Panjabi: “ਯੂਕ੍ਰੇਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Ukrania”
  • Pedi: “Ukraine”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Ukraine”
  • Persian: “اوکراین”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Ukraine”
  • Picard: “Oucrinne”
  • Piemontese: “Ucrain-a”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Yukrayn”
  • Polish: “Ukraina”
  • Polish: “Україна”
  • Pontic: “Ουκρανία”
  • Portuguese: “ua”
  • Portuguese: “Ucrânia”
  • Portuguese: “Ukr.”
  • Portuguese: “Ukraina”
  • Portuguese: “Ukrainia”
  • Pushto: “اوکراين”
  • Pushto: “اوکراین”
  • Quechua: “Ucrania”
  • Quechua: “Ukranya”
  • Quechua: “Ukrayina”
  • Romanian: “Ucraina”
  • Romanian: “Украина”
  • Romansh: “Ucraina”
  • Rundi: “Ikerene”
  • Russia Buriat: “Украина”
  • Russia Buriat: “Украйн”
  • Russian: “Украина”
  • Russian: “Украиной”
  • Rusyn: “Україна”
  • Sakizaya: “Ukraine”
  • Samoan: “Iukureini”
  • Samoan: “Ukraine”
  • Samogitian: “Okraėna”
  • Sango: “Ukrêni”
  • Santali: “ᱤᱣᱠᱨᱮᱱ”
  • Santali: “ᱭᱩᱠᱨᱮᱱ”
  • Sardinian: “Ucraina”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Ukraine”
  • Scots: “Ukraine”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “An Ucràin”
  • Serbian: “Ukrajina”
  • Serbian: “Украјина”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ukrajina”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းယူႇၶရဵၼ်း”
  • Shona: “Ukraine”
  • Shona: “Vukireni”
  • Sicilian: “Ucraina”
  • Silesian: “Ukrajina”
  • Sindhi: “يوڪرين”
  • Sinhala: “යුක්‍රේනය”
  • Sinhala: “යුක්රේනය”
  • Skolt Sami: “Ukraina”
  • Slovak: “Ukrajina”
  • Slovenian: “Ukrajina”
  • Somali: “Ukrain”
  • Somali: “Yukrayn”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اوکراین”
  • Southern Sotho: “Ukraine”
  • Spanish: “ua”
  • Spanish: “Ucraina”
  • Spanish: “Ucrania”
  • Spanish: “Ukraina”
  • Spanish: “Ukrainia”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Ukrainakondre”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵓⴽⵔⴰⵏⵢⴰ”
  • Sundanese: “Ukraina”
  • Swahili: “Ukraine”
  • Swahili: “Ukraini”
  • Swati: “IYukhureni”
  • Swedish: “Ukraina”
  • Swiss German: “Ukraine”
  • Sylheti: “ꠁꠃꠇ꠆ꠞꠦꠘ”
  • Sylheti: “ꠃꠇ꠆ꠞꠦꠘ”
  • Tachelhit: “Ukranya”
  • Tagalog: “Ukraine”
  • Tagalog: “Ukranya”
  • Tajik: “Ukraina”
  • Tajik: “Ukroin”
  • Tajik: “Ukroina”
  • Tajik: “Ukroyn”
  • Tajik: “Украина”
  • Tajik: “Укроин”
  • Tajik: “Укроина”
  • Tajik: “Укройин”
  • Tajik: “Укройн”
  • Talysh: “Ukrajnə”
  • Tamil: “உக்ரைன்”
  • Taroko: “Ukraine”
  • Tatar: “Ukrayına”
  • Tatar: “Украина”
  • Telugu: “ఉక్రెయిన్”
  • Tetum: “Ukránia”
  • Thai: “ประเทศยูเครน”
  • Thai: “ยูเครน”
  • Thai: “อูกรายีนา”
  • Tibetan: “ཡུ་ཀྲན།”
  • Tibetan: “ཨུཀ་རཡི་ནི།”
  • Tigrinya: “ua”
  • Tigrinya: “ኡክራይና”
  • Tigrinya: “ዩክረይን”
  • Tigrinya: “ዩክሬን”
  • Tok Pisin: “Yukren”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻŪkalaʻine”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Ukraine”
  • Tsonga: “Ukraine”
  • Tswana: “Ukraine”
  • Tumbuka: “Ukraine”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “أوكرانيا”
  • Turkish: “Ukrayna”
  • Turkmen: “Ukraina”
  • Tuvinian: “Украина”
  • Twi: “Ukraine”
  • Tyap: “Yuki̱ren”
  • Udmurt: “Украина”
  • Uighur: “ئۇكرائىنا”
  • Ukrainian: “ua”
  • Ukrainian: “Ukraina”
  • Ukrainian: “Ukraïna”
  • Ukrainian: “Ukrayina”
  • Ukrainian: “Вкраїна”
  • Ukrainian: “Україна”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Ukraina”
  • Urdu: “یوکرائن”
  • Urdu: “یوکرین”
  • Uzbek: “Ukraina”
  • Venda: “Ukraine”
  • Venetian: “Ucraina”
  • Venetian: “Ucràina”
  • Veps: “Ukrain”
  • Vietnamese: “Ô Khắc Lan”
  • Vietnamese: “U-crai-na (Ukraine)”
  • Vietnamese: “U-crai-na”
  • Vietnamese: “Ucraina”
  • Vietnamese: “Ukraina”
  • Vietnamese: “Uy Kiên”
  • Vlaams: “Oekraïne”
  • Vlax Romani: “Ukraina”
  • Vlax Romani: “Ukrayna”
  • Volapük: “Lukrayän”
  • Võro: “Ukraina”
  • Walloon: “Oucrinne”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ukranya”
  • Welsh: “Iwcrain”
  • Welsh: “Wcrain”
  • Welsh: “Wcráin”
  • Welsh: “yr Wcráin”
  • Western Armenian: “Ուքրանիա”
  • Western Balochi: “اوکراین”
  • Western Frisian: “Oekraïne”
  • Western Mari: “Украина”
  • Western Panjabi: “یوکرین”
  • Wolof: “Ikeren”
  • Wolof: “Ukreen”
  • Wu Chinese: “乌克兰”
  • Xhosa: “IYukreyini”
  • Xhosa: “Ukraine”
  • Yakut: “Украина”
  • Yakut: “Украйиина”
  • Yiddish: “אוקראינע”
  • Yiddish: “אוקראַינע”
  • Yiddish: “אוקריינע”
  • Yiddish: “אוקרײַנע”
  • Yoruba: “Ukarini”
  • Yoruba: “Ukréìn”
  • Yoruba: “Yukréìn”
  • Yue Chinese: “烏克蘭”
  • Zeeuws: “Oekraïne”
  • Zhuang: “Vuhgwzlanz”
  • Zulu: “i-Ukraine”
  • Zulu: “IYukreyini”
  • “ma Ukawina”
  • “Okraina”
  • “Okrainah”
  • “Okraniah”
  • “UA”
  • “Ucragna”
  • “Ucraina”
  • “Ucraine”
  • “UKR”
  • “Ukraina”
  • “Ukraine”
  • “Украина”
  • “यूक्रेन”

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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 “Ukraine”. Photo: Chern038, CC BY-SA 3.0.