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Western Ukraine
- Historical region with 9,770,000 residents
- …is also known as “West Ukraine”
- Description: geographical and historical region in the western territories of Ukraine
- Location
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Latitude of center
49.91° or 49° 54′ 36″ north
Longitude of center
27.13° or 27° 7′ 48″ east
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Western Ukraine” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “غرب أوكرانيا”
- Armenian: “Արևմտյան Ուկրաինա”
- Azerbaijani: “Qərbi Ukrayna”
- Belarusian: “Заходняя Украіна”
- Belarusian: “Заходняя Ўкраіна”
- Catalan: “Ucraïna Occidental”
- Chinese: “乌克兰西部”
- Chinese: “乌克兰西部地区”
- Chinese: “烏克蘭西部”
- Chinese: “烏克蘭西部地區”
- Chinese: “西乌克兰”
- Chinese: “西烏克蘭”
- Chinese: “鸟克兰西部”
- Chuvash: “Анăç Украина”
- Czech: “Západní Ukrajina”
- Danish: “Vestukraine”
- Dimli (individual language): “Ukrayna Rocawani”
- Dimli (individual language): “Ukraynay Rocawani”
- Dutch: “West-Oekraïne”
- Esperanto: “Okcidenta Ukrainio”
- Estonian: “Lääne-Ukraina”
- Finnish: “Länsi-Ukraina”
- French: “Ukraine occidentale”
- German: “Czerwona Ruś”
- German: “Rotreußen”
- German: “Ruś Czerwona”
- German: “Ukraine (West)”
- German: “Ukraine West”
- German: “Westukraine”
- German: “Woiwodschaft Rotreußen”
- German: “Woiwodschaft Ruś Czerwona”
- Greek: “Δυτική Ουκρανία”
- Hebrew: “מערב אוקראינה”
- Indonesian: “Ukraina Barat”
- Italian: “Ucraina occidentale”
- Japanese: “ウクライナ西部”
- Japanese: “西ウクライナ”
- Kannada: “ಪಶ್ಚಿಮ ಉಕ್ರೇನ್”
- Korean: “서우크라이나”
- Latvian: “Rietumukraina”
- Lithuanian: “Vakarų Ukraina”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vest-Ukraina”
- Ossetian: “Ныгуылæн Украинæ”
- Persian: “اوکراین غربی”
- Persian: “غرب اوکراین”
- Polish: “Zachodnia Ukraina”
- Portuguese: “Ucrânia Ocidental”
- Romanian: “Ucraina de Vest”
- Russian: “Западная Украина”
- Scots: “Wastren Ukraine”
- Slovenian: “zahodna Ukrajina”
- Slovenian: “Zahodna Ukrajina”
- Spanish: “Region occidental de Ucrania”
- Spanish: “Región occidental de Ucrania”
- Spanish: “Ucrania occidental”
- Swedish: “Västra Ukraina”
- Turkish: “Batı Ukrayna”
- Ukrainian: “Західна Україна”
- Venetian: “Ucraina osidentałe”
- Vietnamese: “Tây Ukraina”
- Yue Chinese: “西烏克蘭”
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