Podolia Governorate

Podolia Governorate
Подольская губерния
Location in the Russian Empire
CountryRussian Empire
KraiSouthwestern
Established1793
Abolished1925
Capital
Area
 • Total
42,017 km2 (16,223 sq mi)
Population
 (1897)
 • Total
3,018,299
 • Density71.835/km2 (186.05/sq mi)
 • Urban
7.35%
 • Rural
92.65%

Podolia Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Southwestern Krai of the Russian Empire. It bordered Volhynian Governorate to the north, Kiev Governorate to the east, Kherson Governorate to the southeast, Bessarabia Governorate to the south, and Austria to the west. Its administrative centre was Kamenets-Podolsky (Kamianets-Podilskyi), which later moved to Vinnitsa (Vinnytsia). The governorate covered part of Ukraine's Khmelnytskyi Oblast and most of Vinnytsia Oblast, along with the fractionally recognised state of Transnistria.