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Ukraine landmarks quiz: guess where 13 photos were taken

13 places in Ukraine, each with a photo, a fact and a spot on the map. Play five of them here, then study the rest below.

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Five places from the 13 below, in a random order. Your pin against the real spot, five times.

Where they are

13 on the map
Hover or tap a dot to name the place.

All 13 places

by id
Livadia Palace, Ukraine
Livadia Palacemedium

The white summer palace of the tsars where the 1945 Yalta Conference was held.

Photo: Bonbosch / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Khotyn Fortress, Ukraine
Khotyn Fortressmedium

A medieval fortress on the Dniester, besieged by Ottomans, Poles and Cossacks.

Photo: Rbrechko / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sviatohirsk Lavra, Ukraine
Sviatohirsk Lavrahard

A white monastery on a chalk cliff above the Donets River.

Photo: Ryzhkov Sergey / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Snake Island, Ukraine
Snake Islandeasy

A tiny Black Sea rock that became famous on the first day of the 2022 invasion.

Photo: Фотонак / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans, Ukraine
Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitanshard

A brick-and-tile 19th-century residence in Chernivtsi, now the university.

Photo: Oleksandr Malyon / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Saint George's Cathedral, Ukraine
Saint George's Cathedralhard

A rococo Greek Catholic cathedral crowning a hill above Lviv.

Photo: Lestat (Jan Mehlich) / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Danube Delta, Ukraine
Danube Deltaeasy

Europe's largest wetland, where the Danube fans out into the Black Sea.

Photo: Iryna Bondar / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Lubart's Castle, Ukraine
Lubart's Castlehard

A 14th-century brick castle in Lutsk, pictured on Ukraine's 200-hryvnia note.

Photo: Roman Bekas / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sofiyivsky Park, Ukraine
Sofiyivsky Parkhard

A romantic landscape park of grottoes and waterfalls, built by a count for his wife.

Photo: Сергій Криниця (Haidamac) / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Kamianets-Podilskyi Castle, Ukraine
Kamianets-Podilskyi Castlehard

A fortress on a rock loop of the Smotrych River, one of the Seven Wonders of Ukraine.

Photo: Grzegorz Gołębiowski / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Mariinskyi Palace, Ukraine
Mariinskyi Palacemedium

The turquoise baroque palace of Kyiv, official residence of Ukraine's president.

Photo: Roman Naumov / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Khan's Palace, Ukraine
Khan's Palacemedium

The 16th-century palace of the Crimean khans, with the Fountain of Tears.

Photo: Tiia Monto / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Saint Sophia Cathedral, Ukraine
Saint Sophia Cathedraleasy

An 11th-century cathedral with green-and-gold domes and original Byzantine mosaics.

Photo: Rbrechko / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

How to place them

Ukraine's 13 places line up west to east, Saint George's Cathedral first and Sviatohirsk Lavra last, 980 km apart. The densest patch is in the west, where Khotyn Fortress, Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans and Kamianets-Podilskyi Castle sit within 120 km. Sviatohirsk Lavra sits alone, 530 km from Mariinskyi Palace, its nearest neighbour in the set.

Three easy, four medium, six hard. Sviatohirsk Lavra and Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans are the first hard ones; Snake Island and Danube Delta are easy. Kamianets-Podilskyi Castle is a fortress on a rock loop of the Smotrych River, one of the Seven Wonders of Ukraine.

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Questions & answers

How many places in Ukraine are in the game?

13, from Lubart's Castle in the north to Livadia Palace in the south. A round here plays five of them.

Which photo from Ukraine is the hardest?

Sviatohirsk Lavra, Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans and Saint George's Cathedral are rated hard, with three more. On hard photos the score halves every 451 km beyond the accuracy radius.

Which one is easiest to score full points on?

Snake Island: its accuracy radius is 60 km, so any pin inside that circle scores 5,000.

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