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Ukraine landmarks quiz: guess where 13 photos were taken
13 places in Ukraine, each with a photo, a short fact and its spot on the map. Play five of them here, then look through the rest below.
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Five places from the 13 below, in random order. Each one scores by the distance from your pin to the real spot.
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The white summer palace of the tsars where the 1945 Yalta Conference was held.
Photo: Bonbosch / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A medieval fortress on the Dniester, besieged by Ottomans, Poles and Cossacks.
Photo: Rbrechko / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A white monastery on a chalk cliff above the Donets River.
Photo: Ryzhkov Sergey / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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
A brick-and-tile 19th-century residence in Chernivtsi, now the university.
Photo: Oleksandr Malyon / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A rococo Greek Catholic cathedral crowning a hill above Lviv.
Photo: Lestat (Jan Mehlich) / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
One of Europe's largest wetlands, where the Danube fans out into the Black Sea.
Photo: Iryna Bondar / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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
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
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
The turquoise baroque palace of Kyiv, official residence of Ukraine's president.
Photo: Roman Naumov / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The 16th-century palace of the Crimean khans, with the Fountain of Tears.
Photo: Tiia Monto / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
An 11th-century cathedral with green-and-gold domes and original Byzantine mosaics.
Photo: Rbrechko / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHow to place them
From Saint George's Cathedral across to Sviatohirsk Lavra is 980 km, and the other places here sit between the two. Around Khotyn Fortress, in the west, Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans and Kamianets-Podilskyi Castle sit within 120 km. Watch out for Sviatohirsk Lavra. It is 530 km from Mariinskyi Palace, the nearest other place.
By rating, the photos are three easy, four medium and six hard. The hard ones include Sviatohirsk Lavra, Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans and Saint George's Cathedral. The easy ones are Snake Island, Danube Delta and Saint Sophia Cathedral. 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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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 on this page plays five of them.
Which places in Ukraine are the hardest to find?
The hard ones include Sviatohirsk Lavra, Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans and Saint George's Cathedral. On any photo the score halves for every 693 km you are outside the accuracy radius.
Which photo is the easiest to score full points on?
Try Snake Island. Anything within 60 km of it counts as a direct hit.