Dnieper Lowland
geographical object
The Dnieper Lowland (also: Circumdnieper Lowland) (Ukrainian: Придніпровська низовина, romanized: Prydniprovska nyzovyna, lit. 'Cisdnipro Lowland') is a major geographic feature of the Central Ukraine region and the East European Plain. It covers the area of over 100,000 km2 and includes the Poltava and Chernihiv regions, as well as parts of Kyiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Cherkasy and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
Geography
It lies along the midstream of the Dnieper River, mostly on its left bank, spanning from the border of Belarus all the way to Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. The lowland is an extended valley of Dnieper with a system of floodplains.
To its northwest lies the swampy Polesian Lowland, to the northeast and east is the Central Russian Upland, and on the right bank of the Dnieper rises Dnieper Upland, which with Zaporizhia Ridge is connected to the Donets-Azov Plateau. The southeastern border of Dnieper Lowland follows the line of the Samara River and the Donets Ridge. In its northeastern part it joins the Donets Lowland. The northern part of the area belongs to the geographical region of Polesia and is sometimes considered to be separate from the rest of the lowland.
The surface of the Dnieper Lowland is sloped in the western and southern directions. Its altitude above sea level varies from over 200 meters in the northeast and southeast to only 40 meters at the mouth of Samara.
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