Left-bank Ukraine

Left-bank Ukraine
Лівобережна Україна
Historical region
Transfiguration Monastery in Novhorod-Siverskyi
Location on the map of Ukraine
Country Ukraine
Largest cityKyiv
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

The Left-bank Ukraine is a historic region in north-central and central Ukraine. It is located on the left (east) bank of the Dnieper River, comprising the modern-day oblasts of Chernihiv and Poltava. as well as the eastern parts of Kyiv and Cherkasy, and the western part of Sumy.

Left-bank Ukraine is bordered by the historical regions of Right-bank Ukraine to the southwest, Zaporizhzhia to the southeast, Sloboda Ukraine to the east, and Polesia and White Ruthenia to the north.

Largest cities are Kyiv (eastern part), Chernihiv, Poltava and Kremenchuk.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.