The Podolian Upland (Podolian Plateau) or Podillia Upland (, ''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, ''upland'' refers to a range of hills, typically from up to , while ''highland'' is usually reserved for range ...

area in southwestern

Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...

, on the left (northeast) bank of the

Dniester River The Dniester ( ) is a transboundary river in Eastern Europe. It runs first through Ukraine and then through Moldova (from which it more or less separates the breakaway territory of Transnistria), finally discharging into the Black Sea on Uk ...

, with small portions in its western extent stretching into eastern

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. The region lies roughly between the

Southern Bug The Southern Bug, also called Southern Buh (; ; ; or just ), and sometimes Boh River (; ),

and Dniester Rivers, with the

Western Bug The Bug or Western Bug is a major river in Central Europe that flows through Belarus (border), Poland, and Ukraine, with a total length of .dales) dissected into separate natural sub-regions: *Wooded elevated hills **

Roztochia Roztocze () 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 rolling, the range is approxima ...

** Opillia ** Holohory ** Voronyaky ** Kremenets Hills (Mountains) ** *Flat treeless plateaus ** Ternopil Plateau ** Upper Bug Plateau ** North-Podolian Plateau The Podolian Upland and the

Volhynian Upland The Volhynian Upland () is an Upland (geology), upland in western Ukraine, with its small northwestern part stretching into eastern Poland. The Podolian Upland and the Volhynian Upland are sometimes grouped together as the Volhynian-Podolian Upla ...

are sometimes grouped together as the

Volhynian-Podolian Upland The Volhynian-Podolian Upland () is a system of uplands in West Ukraine and Right-bank Ukraine, right-bank Ukraine. The upland includes: * Podillia Upland **Opillia Upland **Lviv Plateau **Holohory-Kremenets Ridge ***Kremenets Hills ***Holohory ...

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File:Каньйон Тернави.JPG, Podolian Tovtry File:Де Збруч впадає в Дністер.jpg, Tovtry at confluence of

Zbruch The Zbruch (; ) is a river in Western Ukraine, a left tributary of the Dniester.Збруч

Dniester The Dniester ( ) is a transboundary river in Eastern Europe. It runs first through Ukraine and then through Moldova (from which it more or less separates the breakaway territory of Transnistria), finally discharging into the Black Sea on Uk ...

File:Каньйон Смотрича.JPG, Smotrych Canyon (Tovtry) File:Beremiany-Govda-Velyka-08040424.jpg, Great Hovda Hill

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at the

Encyclopedia of Ukraine The ''Encyclopedia of Ukraine'' (), published from 1984 to 2001, is a fundamental work of Ukrainian Studies. Development The work was created under the auspices of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Europe (Sarcelles, near Paris). As the ...

. * Herenchuk, K.I.
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Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia The ''Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia'' () was a multi-purpose encyclopedia of Ukraine, issued in the USSR. First attempt Following the publication of the first volume of the in Lviv, then in Poland, in 1930, the ''Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia ...

* Shabliy, O.I., Mukha, B.P., Huryn, A.V., Zinkevych, M.V.
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