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Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv, Chersonesus, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and 7 more — what each one is, and why it is worth the detour.
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Chosen from everything Wikidata knows about Ukraine and ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions describe them, which is about as close to "famous" as open data gets. 2 are on UNESCO's World Heritage list.
World Heritage
Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine
An architectural monument of Kyivan Rus' in Kyiv, Ukraine, now a former cathedral and one of the city's best-known landmarks. Together with the Kyiv Cave Monastery complex, it was the first Ukrainian heritage site placed on the World Heritage List.
Photo: Rbrechko, CC BY-SA 4.0
Ancient Greek colonial ruins in Sevastopol, Crimea
In medieval Greek shortened to Cherson (Χερσών): a colony that Greeks from Heraclea Pontica, in Bithynia, set up in the 6th century BC, approximately 2,500 years ago, in the Crimean Peninsula's south-west.
Photo: Dmitry A. Mottl, CC BY-SA 3.0
Public university in Kyiv, Ukraine
A public university in the Ukrainian city of Kyiv.
Photo: Juanedc, CC BY 2.0
World Heritage
River delta in Europe
Europe's second largest river delta, after the Volga Delta, and the continent's best preserved. It forms where the Danube River flows into the Black Sea; most of it is in Romania, and a small part in Ukraine.
Photo: European Space Agency, Attribution
Decommissioned nuclear power plant in Ukraine
Often shortened to ChNPP, a former nuclear power plant now being decommissioned, near the abandoned city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine. Chernobyl city is 16.5 kilometres (10 mi) away to its southeast, the Belarus–Ukraine border 16 kilometres (10 mi) away, and Kyiv roughly 100 kilometres (62 mi) to its south.
Photo: Ingmar Runge, CC BY-SA 3.0
Central Square in Kyiv, Ukraine
Also called Independence Square, the central square of Kyiv, Ukraine's capital, on Khreshchatyk Street in the Shevchenko Raion, and one of the city's main squares.
Photo: Juan Antonio Segal, CC BY-SA 4.0
Nuclear-power plant in Enerhodar, Ukraine
Europe's largest nuclear power plant, and among the 10 largest on Earth, in south-eastern Ukraine; Russia has controlled it since 2022.
Photo: Ralf1969, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Official residence of the president of Ukraine
The official residence of Ukraine's president: an Elizabethan baroque palace on the Dnipro's right bank in Kyiv, next to the neo-classical building of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament.
Photo: Roman Naumov, CC BY-SA 4.0
Isthmus
Meaning the Isthmus of the Trench, a narrow strip of land 5–7 kilometres (3.1–4.3 mi) wide joining the Crimean Peninsula to mainland Ukraine, between the Syvash to its east and the Black Sea to its west.
Photo: Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0
An Eastern European country, second in size in Europe only to Russia, which lies to its east and northeast. Belarus is to its north, Slovakia and Poland to its west, Moldova, Romania and Hungary to its southwest, and the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea to its south and southeast.
Officially Ukraine. Known locally as Ukraїna Україна.
Based on the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: the facts are Wikipedia's, the wording is this site's.
This guide lists 10: Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv, Chersonesus, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and Hoverla and others. Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv and Danube Delta are UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
By machine, from open data, with no human ranking them and nobody able to pay for a place on the list. Everything Wikidata records in Ukraine that is a building, a landform, a protected area or a tourist attraction, has coordinates, a photograph and an English Wikipedia article, is ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions wrote about it. Provinces, cities, airports, stations and stretches of sea shared with the neighbours are filtered out.
2 of the 10 in this guide: Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv and Danube Delta. That is not the full count for Ukraine, only the listed sites that made this guide.
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