The Podolian Upland (Podolian Plateau) or Podillia Upland ( uk, подільська височина, ''podilska vysochyna'') is a
highland
Highlands or uplands are areas of high elevation such as a mountainous region, elevated mountainous plateau or high hills. Generally speaking, upland (or uplands) refers to ranges of hills, typically from up to while highland (or highlands) is ...
area in southwestern
Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...
, on the left (northeast) bank of the
Dniester River, with small portions in its western extent stretching into eastern
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...
.
The region lies roughly between the
Southern Bug 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
dales) dissected into separate natural sub-regions:
*Wooded heightened hills
**
Roztochia
Roztocze ( uk, Розточчя, ''Roztochia'') 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. Low and ...
**
Holohory
** Voronyaky
** Kremenets Hills (Mountains)
** Tovtry
*Flat treeless plateaus
** Ternopil Plateau
** Upper Bug Plateau
** North-Podolian Plateau
The Podolian Upland and the
Volhynian Upland
The Volhynian Upland ( uk, Волинська височина, ''volynska vysochyna'') is an upland in western Ukraine, with its small northwestern part stretching into eastern Poland.
The Podolian Upland and the Volhynian Upland are sometimes ...
are sometimes grouped together as the
Volhynian-Podolian Upland
Volhynian-Podolian Upland ( uk, Волинсько-Поділська височина) is a system of uplands in West Ukraine and Right-bank Ukraine.
The upland includes such features:
* Podillia Upland
** Opillia Upland
**Lviv Plateau
**Holo ...
.
Gallery
File:Каньйон Тернави.JPG, Podolian Tovtry
File:Де Збруч впадає в Дністер.jpg, Tovtry at confluence of Zbruch
The Zbruch ( uk, Збруч, pl, Zbrucz) is a river in Western Ukraine, a left tributary of the Dniester.[Збруч] and Dniester
The Dniester, ; rus, Дне́стр, links=1, Dnéstr, ˈdⁿʲestr; ro, Nistru; grc, Τύρᾱς, Tyrās, ; la, Tyrās, la, Danaster, label=none, ) ( ,) is a transboundary river in Eastern Europe. It runs first through Ukraine and th ...
File:Каньйон Смотрича.JPG, Smotrych Canyon (Tovtry)
File:Beremiany-Govda-Velyka-08040424.jpg, Great Hovda Hill
See also
*
Dniester Canyon
Dniester Canyon – the Dniester River canyon, located at the territory of Dniester River Valley in Ukraine. On February 3, 2010, the Regional landscape park "Dniester Canyon" was promoted to the status of the National Nature Park.
Overview
...
*
Optymistychna Cave
Optymistychna ( uk, Оптимістична: meaning "optimistic", also known as Peschtschera Optimistitscheskaya) is a gypsum cave located near the Ukrainian village of Korolivka, Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast. Approximately of passageways ...
External links
Podolian Uplandat the
Encyclopedia of Ukraine
The ''Encyclopedia of Ukraine'' ( uk, Енциклопедія українознавства, translit=Entsyklopediia ukrainoznavstva), published from 1984 to 2001, is a fundamental work of Ukrainian Studies.
Development
The work was creat ...
.
* Herenchuk, K.I.
Podolian Upland'.
Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia
The ''Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia'' ( uk, Українська радянська енциклопедія, ''Ukrayinska radyanska entsyklopediya'') was a multi-purpose encyclopedia of Ukraine, issued in the USSR.
First attempt
Following th ...
* 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
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