Geography of Ukraine, the Glossary
Ukraine is the second-largest European country, after Russia.[1]
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101 relations: Arable land, Azov Upland, Baltic Sea, Basement (geology), Belarus, Biome, Black Sea, Black Sea Lowland, Breadbasket, Carpathian Mountains, Cartography of Ukraine, Central Intelligence Agency, Central Russian Upland, Chernobyl, Chernobyl disaster, Chernozem, Climate change, Climate change vulnerability, Continental climate, Crimean Mountains, Danish Meteorological Institute, Danube, Danube Delta, Desna (river), Divisions of the Carpathians, Dnieper, Dnieper Lowland, Dnieper Upland, Dniester, Dnipro, Donets, Donets Ridge, Donetsk, Drainage basin, East European Craton, East European Plain, Eastern Beskids, Eastern Carpathian Foothills, Eastern Europe, Europe, European Plain, Exclusive economic zone, Geography of Slovakia, Great Hungarian Plain, Height above mean sea level, Hoverla, Humid subtropical climate, Hungary, Kaolinite, Kharkiv, ... Expand index (51 more) »
Arable land
Arable land (from the arabilis, "able to be ploughed") is any land capable of being ploughed and used to grow crops.
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Azov Upland
Azov Upland is a plateau or range of hills in East Ukraine within the Donetsk and Zaporizhia oblasts.
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Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North and Central European Plain.
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Basement (geology)
In geology, basement and crystalline basement are crystalline rocks lying above the mantle and beneath all other rocks and sediments.
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Belarus
Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe.
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Biome
A biome is a distinct geographical region with specific climate, vegetation, and animal life.
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Black Sea
The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia.
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Black Sea Lowland
The Black Sea Lowland is a major geographic feature of the Northern Pontic region and the East European Plain.
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Breadbasket
The breadbasket of a country or of a region is an area which, because of the richness of the soil and/or advantageous climate, produces large quantities of wheat or other grain.
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Carpathian Mountains
The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians are a range of mountains forming an arc across Central Europe and Southeast Europe.
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Cartography of Ukraine
The cartography of Ukraine involves the history of surveying and the construction of maps of Ukraine.
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Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.
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Central Russian Upland
The Central Russian Upland (also Middle Russian Upland and East European Upland) is an upland area of the East European Plain and is an undulating plateau with an average elevation of.
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Chernobyl
Chernobyl (Чернобыль) or Chornobyl (Чорнобиль) is a partially abandoned city in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, situated in the Vyshhorod Raion of northern Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine.
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Chernobyl disaster
The Chernobyl disaster began on 26 April 1986 with the explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR, close to the border with the Byelorussian SSR, in the Soviet Union.
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Chernozem
Chernozem (from r; "black ground"), also called black soil, regur soil or black cotton soil, is a black-colored soil containing a high percentage of humus (4% to 16%) and high percentages of phosphorus and ammonia compounds.
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Climate change
In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.
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Climate change vulnerability
Climate change vulnerability is a concept that describes how strongly people or ecosystems are likely to be affected by climate change.
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Continental climate
Continental climates often have a significant annual variation in temperature (warm to hot summers and cold winters).
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Crimean Mountains
The Crimean Mountains or Yayla Mountains /jaɪːlə/, /jeɪːlæ/ are a range of mountains running parallel to the south-eastern coast of Crimea, between about from the sea.
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Danish Meteorological Institute
The Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI; Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut) is the official Danish meteorological institute, administrated by the Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities.
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Danube
The Danube (see also other names) is the second-longest river in Europe, after the Volga in Russia.
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Danube Delta
The Danube Delta (Delta Dunării,; Del'ta Dunaju) is the second largest river delta in Europe, after the Volga Delta, and is the best preserved on the continent.
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Desna (river)
The Desna (Десна; Десна) is a river in Russia and Ukraine, a major left-tributary of the Dnieper.
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Divisions of the Carpathians
Divisions of the Carpathians are a categorization of the Carpathian mountains system.
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Dnieper
The Dnieper, also called Dnepr or Dnipro, is one of the major transboundary rivers of Europe, rising in the Valdai Hills near Smolensk, Russia, before flowing through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea.
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Dnieper Lowland
Dnieper Lowland is a major geographic feature of the Central Ukraine region and the East European Plain.
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Dnieper Upland
The Dnieper Upland or Cisdnieper Upland (translit) is a southeastern European plain occupying the territory between the Dnieper and the Southern Bug.
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Dniester
The Dniester is a transboundary river in Eastern Europe.
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Dnipro
Dnipro is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants.
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Donets
The Seversky Donets or Siverskyi Donets, usually simply called the Donets, is a river on the south of the East European Plain.
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Donets Ridge
The Donets Ridge is a highland that is the highest north-eastern part of the Donets upland.
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Donetsk
Donetsk (Донецьк; Донецк), formerly known as Aleksandrovka, Yuzivka (or Hughesovka), 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.
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Drainage basin
A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean.
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East European Craton
The East European Craton (EEC) is the core of the Baltica proto-plate and consists of three crustal regions/segments: Fennoscandia to the northwest, Volgo-Uralia to the east, and Sarmatia to the south.
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East European Plain
The East European Plain (also called the Russian Plain, "Extending from eastern Poland through the entire European Russia to the Ural Mountaina, the East European Plain encompasses all of the Baltic states and Belarus, nearly all of Ukraine, and much of the European portion of Russia and reaches north into Finland." — Britannica.
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Eastern Beskids
The Eastern Beskids or Eastern Beskyds (Skhidni Beskydy; Beskidy Wschodnie; Выходны Бескиды; Beskizii Orientali) are a geological group of mountain ranges of the Beskids, within the Outer Eastern Carpathians.
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Eastern Carpathian Foothills as a geographical term designates transitional region in the western parts of Ukraine and northeastern parts of Romania, between Eastern Carpathian Mountains to the southwest and number of plain regions to the east and north (bordering Moldavian Plateau to the southeast and east, Podillia Upland to the northeast and east, Roztochia Upland to the north, Sian Lowland to the northwest).
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Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is a subregion of the European continent.
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Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
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European Plain
The European Plain or the Great European Plain is a plain in Europe and is a major feature of one of four major topographical units of Europethe Central and Interior Lowlands.
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Exclusive economic zone
An exclusive economic zone (EEZ), as prescribed by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is an area of the sea in which a sovereign state has exclusive rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind.
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Geography of Slovakia
Slovakia is a landlocked Central European country with mountainous regions in the north and flat terrain in the south.
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Great Hungarian Plain
The Great Hungarian Plain (also known as Alföld or Great Alföld, Alföld or Nagy Alföld) is a plain occupying the majority of the modern territory of Hungary.
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Height above mean sea level
Height above mean sea level is a measure of a location's vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) in reference to a vertical datum based on a historic mean sea level.
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Hoverla
Mount Hoverla (Ukrainian and Говерла), at, is the highest mountain in Ukraine and part of the Ukrainian Carpathians.
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Humid subtropical climate
A humid subtropical climate is a temperate climate type characterized by hot and humid summers, and cool to mild winters.
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Hungary
Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe.
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Kaolinite
Kaolinite (also called kaolin) is a clay mineral, with the chemical composition: Al2Si2O5(OH)4.
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Kharkiv
Kharkiv (Харків), also known as Kharkov (Харькoв), is the second-largest city in Ukraine.
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Kuialnyk Estuary
Kuialnyk Estuary (Куяльницький лиман, Kuyanlık), formerly known as Andriivskyi Lyman, is an estuary of the Velykyi Kuialnyk on the northwest coast of the Black Sea, one of the group of Odesa estuaries, located north of Odesa.
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Kyiv
Kyiv (also Kiev) is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine.
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Lake Yalpuh
Yalpuh (Озеро Ялпуг) is a freshwater lake located in the southern Ukrainian oblast of Odesa.
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List of European countries by area
Below is a list of European countries and dependencies by area in Europe.
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List of extreme points of Ukraine
This is a list of the extreme points of Ukraine: the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location, as well as the highest and lowest points in the country.
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List of waterfalls in Ukraine
Ukraine has diverse geographic features, including several waterfalls.
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Lithium
Lithium is a chemical element; it has symbol Li and atomic number 3.
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Lumber
Lumber is wood that has been processed into uniform and useful sizes (dimensional lumber), including beams and planks or boards.
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Lviv
Lviv (Львів; see below for other names) is the largest city in western Ukraine, as well as the sixth-largest city in Ukraine, with a population of It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine.
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Moldavian Plateau
The Moldavian Plateau (Podișul Moldovei) is a geographic area of the historical region of Moldavia, spanning nowadays the east and northeast of Romania, most of Moldova (except the south), and most of the Chernivtsi Oblast of Ukraine (where it is known as the Pokuttyan-Bessarabian Upland).
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Moldova
Moldova, officially the Republic of Moldova (Republica Moldova), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, on the northeastern corner of the Balkans.
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Natural gas
Natural gas (also called fossil gas, methane gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane (95%) in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes.
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Natural gas in Ukraine
Ukraine extracts about 20 billion cubic meters of fossil gas each year, and since 2022 this has almost met demand.
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Odesa
Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea.
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Pannonian Basin
The Pannonian Basin, or Carpathian Basin, is a large sedimentary basin situated in southeast Central Europe.
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Plateau
In geology and physical geography, a plateau (plateaus or plateaux), also called a high plain or a tableland, is an area of a highland consisting of flat terrain that is raised sharply above the surrounding area on at least one side.
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Podolian Upland
The Podolian Upland (Podolian Plateau) or Podillia Upland (подільська височина, podilska vysochyna) is a highland area in southwestern Ukraine, on the left (northeast) bank of the Dniester River, with small portions in its western extent stretching into eastern Poland.
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Podzol
In soil science, podzols, also known as podosols, spodosols, or espodossolos, are the typical soils of coniferous or boreal forests and also the typical soils of eucalypt forests and heathlands in southern Australia.
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Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.
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Polesian Lowland
The Polesian Lowland is a lowland in the southwestern portion of the East European Plain in the drainage basins of several rivers including the Dnieper, Pripyat and Desna.
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Precambrian
The Precambrian (or Pre-Cambrian, sometimes abbreviated pC, or Cryptozoic) is the earliest part of Earth's history, set before the current Phanerozoic Eon.
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Precipitation
In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls from clouds due to gravitational pull.
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Pripyat (river)
The Pripyat or Prypiat is a river in Eastern Europe.
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Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe.
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Roztocze
Roztocze (translit) is a range of hills in east-central Poland and western Ukraine which rises from the Lublin Upland and extends southeastward through Solska Forest and across the border into Ukrainian Podolia.
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Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.
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Sea of Azov
The Sea of Azov is an inland shelf sea in Eastern Europe connected to the Black Sea by the narrow (about) Strait of Kerch, and sometimes regarded as a northern extension of the Black Sea.
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Semi-arid climate
A semi-arid climate, semi-desert climate, or steppe climate is a dry climate sub-type.
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Slovakia
Slovakia (Slovensko), officially the Slovak Republic (Slovenská republika), is a landlocked country in Central Europe.
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Snowmelt
In hydrology, snowmelt is surface runoff produced from melting snow.
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Soil salinity
Soil salinity is the salt content in the soil; the process of increasing the salt content is known as salinization.
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Southern Bug
The Southern Bug, also called Southern Buh (Pivdennyi Buh; Yuzhny Bug; Bugul de Sud or just Bug), and sometimes Boh River (Бог; Boh), at the Encyclopedia of Ukraine is a navigable river located in Ukraine.
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Steppe
In physical geography, a steppe is an ecoregion characterized by grassland plains without closed forests except near rivers and lakes.
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Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests
Temperate broadleaf and mixed forest is a temperate climate terrestrial habitat type defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature, with broadleaf tree ecoregions, and with conifer and broadleaf tree mixed coniferous forest ecoregions.
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The World Factbook
The World Factbook, also known as the CIA World Factbook, is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with almanac-style information about the countries of the world.
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Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.
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Ukrainian Carpathians
The Ukrainian Carpathians (Українські Карпати) are a section of the Eastern Carpathians, within the borders of modern Ukraine.
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Ukrainian Shield
In geology, the Ukrainian Shield or the Ukrainian Crystalline Massif is the southwest shield of the East European craton.
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Veľké Slemence
Veľké Slemence (Nagyszelmenc) is a village and municipality in Michalovce District in the Košice Region of southeastern Slovakia.
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Vihorlat-Gutin Area
The Vihorlat-Gutin Area (Vihorlatsko-gutinská oblasť; Вигорлат-Гутинський хребет; Vihorlát–Gutin-hegyvidék) is a region of mountain ranges ranging from eastern Slovakia, through western Ukraine, into northern Romania.
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Volhynian-Podolian Upland
Volhynian-Podolian Upland (Волинсько-Поділська височина) is a system of uplands in West Ukraine and Right-bank Ukraine.
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Water pollution
Water pollution (or aquatic pollution) is the contamination of water bodies, with a negative impact on their uses.
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World Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects.
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World Meteorological Organization
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for promoting international cooperation on atmospheric science, climatology, hydrology and geophysics.
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Yalta
Yalta (Ялта) is a resort city on the south coast of the Crimean Peninsula surrounded by the Black Sea.
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Zakarpattia Lowland
The Zakarpattia Lowland (Закарпа́тська низовина́ / Transcarpathian Lowland; Kárpátaljai-alföld) or Upper Tysa Lowland is a lowland in the southwestern portion of the Zakarpattia Oblast in the drainage basin of Tisza river and located on its right banks.
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Zaporizhzhia
Zaporizhzhia (Запоріжжя,; Zaporozhye), formerly known as Oleksandrivsk until 1921, is a city in southeast Ukraine, situated on the banks of the Dnieper River.
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22nd meridian east
The meridian 22° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, Europe, Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
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41st meridian east
The meridian 41° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
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44th parallel north
The 44th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 44 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.
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53rd parallel north
The 53rd parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 53 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Ukraine
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