Language & Script★★★★★
The letters і, Ї, є, and Ґ exist in Ukrainian but not Russian. Conversely, ы and ё exist in Russian but not Ukrainian.
See alsoRussia
Ukraine
LanguageUkrainian
Driving sideDrives on the right
Domain.ua
Easily confused with:Russia, Poland, SerbiaQuizzes for this area:Ukraine State Quiz, Ukraine City Quiz, Area code quiz (Ukraine)
Whole area5
Clues that work anywhere in this area
License Plate★★★★★
On most license plates, the left edge is light blue and yellow.
Watch outHeavy mosaic blur can make the colors hard to make out.
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Signs★★★
The crosswalk sign shows 3 lines.
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Narrowing down the region6
Once you know the area: which part of it
Area Code
Phone area codes narrow down the region
Phone area codes are assigned by region. When a number shows up on a sign, an advert or a van, its leading digits narrow the location down to a part of the country.
Coloured by leading digitClimate differences
Plants & farming★★★
The north and west have a humid continental climate (Dfb), while the southeast has a dry steppe climate (BS). The closer to the northwest, the denser and taller the trees; the closer to the southeast, the more farmland, with sparser and shorter trees.
Watch outEven the northwest has plenty of spots with few trees, so narrowing the region from road scenery alone is quite hard.
- North/west (Dfb, more trees)
- Southeast (BS, more farmland)
Agriculture
Where Agriculture clues apply2
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Plants & farming★★★★★
Enormous fields with no visible boundaries stretching to the horizon, with sunflowers in summer and bare black soil after harvest, mean the southern-to-central steppe zone.
NoteFields where blackened, withered stalks remain standing after harvest work as the same clue from a distance.
Plants & farming★★★★
Tall corn fields lining both sides of the road, with patches of woodland and tree rows left standing between the fields, mean the north-to-central forest-steppe. In the southern steppe zone, sunflowers and wheat dominate instead.
SourcesSuperAgronom — Кукурудза в цифрах (planted area by region, 2017-2024)SuperAgronom — top regions for 2024 corn harvest
Terrain
Where Terrain clues apply2
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Landscape★★★★★
Utterly flat land with endless pine and birch forest, roadside soil that is whitish sand rather than black, and plenty of marshes or channels along the road, mean Polissia in the north.
Landscape★★★★★
Despite Ukraine's image as a land of plains, if you see wide, gently rounded ridges and deep valleys with slopes covered in beech and spruce forest, that's the Carpathians in the southwest. The giveaway is grassland (polonyna) only on the ridgetops.
Industry & Resources
Landscape★★★★★
A flat landscape with artificial, dark, cone-shaped hills standing here and there means coal-mine spoil tips (terykony). They are concentrated in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. Unlike natural hills, the slope angle is always the same.
Narrowing down the city1
Once you know the region: which city or town
Chernobyl
Building★★★
Street View also covers the area around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Many areas have dilapidated buildings.
Examples123SourcesЧорнобильська АЕС
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Regions
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Basics
General facts about this place- Site of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, and Saint Sophia's Cathedral in the capital Kyiv is registered as a World Heritage Site[ref]
Nearby areas
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