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{{Short description|A relief form in Ukraine, part of the East European Plain}}
[[Image:Ukraine Podolian highland en.jpg|thumb|350px|Podolian Upland]]
[[File:Kremenec 02.jpg|thumb|Kremenets Hills around the city of [[Kremenets]]]]
[[File:Bona Hill Kremenets.jpg|thumb|Bona Hill (Mountain) with ruins at its top]]
The '''Podolian Upland''' (Podolian Plateau) or '''Podillia Upland''' ({{langx|uk|Подільська височина}}, ''Podilska vysochyna'') is a [[Upland (geology)|highland]] area in southwestern [[Ukraine]], on the left (northeast) bank of the [[Dniester|Dniester River]], with small portions in its western extent stretching into eastern [[Poland]]. 

The region lies roughly between the [[Southern Bug]] and Dniester Rivers, with the [[Western Bug]] also originating in the northwest of the highlands. The average altitude of the Podolian Upland is over {{convert|300|m|ft|abbr=on}} with the maximum being a hill known as Kamula Mountain, at {{convert|471|m|ft|abbr=on}}.

The surface is characterized by a combination of wide flat interfluves and deep canyon-like valleys (so called [[Dale (landform)|dale]]s) dissected into separate natural sub-regions:
*Wooded elevated hills
** [[Roztocze|Roztochia]]
** [[Opillia]]
** [[Holohory]]
** Voronyaky
** Kremenets Hills (Mountains)
** {{ill|Tovtry Hills|uk|Товтри}}
*Flat treeless plateaus
** Ternopil Plateau
** Upper Bug Plateau
** North-Podolian Plateau

The Podolian Upland and the [[Volhynian Upland]] are sometimes grouped together as the [[Volhynian-Podolian Upland]].

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Каньйон Тернави.JPG|Podolian Tovtry
File:Де Збруч впадає в Дністер.jpg|Tovtry at confluence of [[Zbruch]] and [[Dniester]]
File:Каньйон Смотрича.JPG|Smotrych Canyon (Tovtry)
File:Beremiany-Govda-Velyka-08040424.jpg|Great Hovda Hill
</gallery>

==See also==
* [[Dniester Canyon]]
* [[Optymistychna Cave]]

==External links==
* [http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages\P\O\PodolianUpland.htm Podolian Upland] at the [[Encyclopedia of Ukraine]].
* Herenchuk, K.I. ''[http://leksika.com.ua/14940720/ure/podilska_visochina Podolian Upland]''. [[Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia]]
* Shabliy, O.I., Mukha, B.P., Huryn, A.V., Zinkevych, M.V. ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20170801043909/http://geoknigi.com/book_view.php?id=23 Lviv Oblast relief. Podolian Upland (Рельєф Львівської області. Подільська височина)]''. "Geography: Lviv Oblast".

{{Geographic regions of Ukraine}}

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[[Category:Plateaus of Ukraine]]
[[Category:Plateaus of Poland]]
[[Category:Volhynian-Podolian Upland]]

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