Ramsar sites in Ukraine

Ukraine has 33 Ramsar sites designated as Wetlands of International Importance. Ukraine Ramsar sites has a total surface area of approximately 744,651 hectares. The Ramasar Convention on Wetlands came into effect for Ukraine on December 1, 1991.

Ukraine Wetlands of International Importance
Name Area (kmĀ²) Coordinates
Bakota Bay, Khmelnytsky Oblast 15.9
Berda River mouth / Berdiansk Spit / Berdiansk Bay, Zaporizhia Oblast 18
Great Chapli Depression, Askania-Nova, Kherson Oblast 23.59
Bilosaraisk Bay / Bilosaraisk Spit, Donetsk Oblast 20
Cape Kazantyp, Crimea 2.51
Cape Opuk Crimea 7.75
Central Syvash, Kherson Oblast / Crimea 800
Desna River floodplains Sumy Oblast 42.7
Dniester-Turunchuk crossrivers area, Odessa Oblast 760
Dnieper-Orli floodplains, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast 25.6
Dnieper River Delta, Kherson Oblast 260
Eastern Syvash Kherson Oblast / Crimea 1,650
Karkinit Bay / Dzharylgat Bay, Kherson Oblast / Crimea 870
Karadag, Crimea 2.24
Kryva Bay / Kryva Spit, Donetsk Oblast 14
Kugurlui Lake, Odessa Oblast 65
Kiliya's Danube Delta at Bystroye Channel, Odessa Oblast 328
Lake Kartal, Odessa Oblast 5
Lake Synevir, Zakarpattia Oblast 0.29
Lower Smotrych River, Khmelnytsky Oblast 14.8
Molochnyi Estuary, Zaporizhia Oblast 224
Northern Part of the Dniester Liman Odessa Oblast 200
Obitochna Spit / Obitochna Spit, Zaporizhia Oblast 20
Perebrody Peatlands, Rivne Oblast 127.18
Polissya Marshes, Zhytomyr Oblast 21.45
Prypiat River floodplains, Volyn Oblast 120
Sasyk Lagoon, Odessa Oblast 210
Shahany-Alibei-Burnas lakes system, Odessa Oblast 190
Shatsk Lakes Volyn Oblast 328.5
Stokhid River floodplains, Volyn Oblast 100
Tendriv Bay, Kherson Oblast 380
Tyligul Estuary, Odessa Oblast / Mykolaiv Oblast 260
Yagorlyk Bay Kherson Oblast / Mykolaiv Oblast 340

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