Southern Bug
| Southern Bug | |
| Ukrainian: Південний Буг, Pivdennyi Buh | |
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| Country | Ukraine |
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| Mouth | |
| - location | Bug Estuary, Ukraine |
| Length | 806 km (501 mi) |
| Basin | 63,700 km2 (24,595 sq mi) |
 Southern Bug through Ukraine
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The Southern Bug, also called Southern Buh (Ukrainian: Південний Буг, Pivdennyi Buh; Russian: Южный Буг, Yuzhny Bug), and sometimes Boh River, is a river located in Ukraine. It is the second-longest river in Ukraine.
The source of the river is in the west of Ukraine, in the Volyn-Podillia Upland, about 145 kilometres (90 mi) from the Polish border, from where it flows southeasterly into the Bug Estuary (Black Sea basin) through the southern steppes. It is 806 kilometres (501 mi) long and drains 63,700 square kilometres (24,600 sq mi).
Major cities on the Southern Bug are Khmelnytskyi, Vinnytsia, Pervomaisk, Mykolaiv (listed downstream, i.e. southwards).
Between 1941 and 1944 during World War II the Southern Bug formed the border between the German-occupied Ukraine and the Romanian-occupied part of Ukraine, called Transnistria.
(Ukrainian: Південний Буг, Pivdennyi Buh; Ukrainian: Бог; Polish: Boh; Russian: Южный Буг, Yuzhny Bug, Ottoman Turkish: Aksu)
Herodotus (c. 484–425 BCE) refers to the river using its ancient Greek name: Hypanis. During the Migration Period of the 5th to the 8th centuries CE the Southern Bug represented a major obstacle to all the migrating peoples in the area.
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