Podolian Upland

 ( Plateaus Of Ukraine ) 

The Podolian Upland (Podolian Plateau) or Podillia Upland (, Podilska vysochyna) is a highland area in southwestern Ukraine, on the left (northeast) bank of the Dniester, 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 with the maximum being a hill known as Kamula Mountain, at .

The surface is characterized by a combination of wide flat interfluves and deep canyon-like valleys (so called dales) dissected into separate natural sub-regions:

• Wooded elevated hills
• Roztocze
• Opillia
• Holohory
• Voronyaky
• Kremenets Hills (Mountains)
• 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==

• Dniester Canyon
• Optymistychna Cave

• Podolian Upland at the Encyclopedia of Ukraine.
• Herenchuk, K.I. Podolian Upland. Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia
• Shabliy, O.I., Mukha, B.P., Huryn, A.V., Zinkevych, M.V. Lviv Oblast relief. Podolian Upland (Рельєф Львівської області. Подільська височина). "Geography: Lviv Oblast".