The Podolian Upland (Podolian Plateau) or Podillia Upland ( uk, подільська височина, ''podilska vysochyna'') is a highland area in southwestern Ukraine, on the left (northeast) bank of the

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, with small portions in its western extent stretching into eastern Poland. The region lies roughly between the

Southern Bug , ''Pivdennyi Buh'' , name_etymology = , image = Sunset S Bug Vinnitsa 2007 G1.jpg , image_size = 270 , image_caption = Southern Bug River in the vicinity of Vinnytsia, Ukraine , map = PietinisBug ...

and Dniester Rivers, with the Western Bug also originating in the northwest of the highlands. The average altitude of the Podolian Upland is over with the maximum being a hill known as Kamula Mountain, at . The surface is characterized by a combination of wide flat interfluves and deep canyon-like valleys (so called

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s) dissected into separate natural sub-regions: *Wooded heightened hills ** Roztochia ** Holohory ** Voronyaky ** Kremenets Hills (Mountains) ** Tovtry *Flat treeless plateaus ** Ternopil Plateau ** Upper Bug Plateau ** North-Podolian Plateau The Podolian Upland and the Volhynian Upland are sometimes grouped together as the Volhynian-Podolian Upland.

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File:Каньйон Тернави.JPG, Podolian Tovtry File:Де Збруч впадає в Дністер.jpg, Tovtry at confluence of Zbruch and Dniester File:Каньйон Смотрича.JPG, Smotrych Canyon (Tovtry) File:Beremiany-Govda-Velyka-08040424.jpg, Great Hovda Hill

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Podolian Upland
at the Encyclopedia of Ukraine. * Herenchuk, K.I.
Podolian Upland
'. Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia * Shabliy, O.I., Mukha, B.P., Huryn, A.V., Zinkevych, M.V.
Lviv Oblast relief. Podolian Upland (Рельєф Львівської області. Подільська височина)
'. "Geography: Lviv Oblast". Plateaus of Ukraine Plateaus of Poland Volhynian-Podolian Upland {{Poland-geo-stub

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