Ukrainian Place Names

As you are likely already aware, it is best practice to spell Ukrainian place names using transliterations based on the Ukrainian language rather than the Russian language, e.g. it's Kyiv not Kiev. Ukraine is a large country (233,062 square miles = 603,628 square kilometers), so there are too many place names to list them all. But here we'll try to have the most common and/or most newsworthy ones. Because there isn't a perfect one-to-one correspondence between the Cyrillic and Latin alphabets, you will occasionally encounter swaps of i/y/j - for example, President Zelenskyy's name (Ukrainian Зеленський) could plausibly be transliterated as Zelenskyy, Zelenskyi, Zeleneskyj. In this article we adhere to the following convention: Ukrainian і = Russian и = Latin i; Ukrainian и = Russian ы = Latin y; Ukrainian й = Russian й = Latin i. The scientific transliteration of й as j is quite rare in the media; it is most often rendered as i, e.g. Кривий Ріг is usually spelled Kryvyi Rih, but sometimes rendered as y, as in Zelenskyy's name.

Place names, in no particular order

Correct spelling	Ukrainian Cyrillic	Wrong spelling	Russian Cyrillic
Kyiv	Київ	Kiev	Киев
Kharkiv	Харків	Kharkov	Харьков
Odesa	Одеса	Odessa	Одесса
Chornobyl	Чорнобиль	Chernobyl	Чернобыль
Donbas	Донбас	Donbass	Донбасс
Zaporizhzhia	Запоріжжя	Zaporozhye	Запорожье
Luhansk	Луганськ	Lugansk	Луганск
Kryvyi Rih	Кривий Ріг	Krivoy Rog	Кривой Рог
Antonivskyi Bridge	Антонівский міст	Antonovskiy Bridge	Антоновский мост

Crimea is Ukraine! Крим - це Україна!

Place names, in no particular order

English	Ukrainian Latin	Ukrainian Cyrillic	Crimean Tatar
Crimea	Krym	Крим	Qırım
Yalta	Yalta	Ялта	Yalta
Sevastopol	Sevastopol	Севастополь	Aqyar
Simferopol	Simferopol	Сімферополь	Aqmescit
Yevpatoria	Yevpatoriia	Євпаторія	Kezlev