Eight World Heritage properties in Ukraine, from Saint-Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv to the Historic Centre of Odesa

Background

Ukraine has eight properties inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, of which seven are cultural and one is natural.
The cultural properties are Kyiv: Saint-Sophia Cathedral and Related Monastic Buildings, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra; L'viv - the Ensemble of the Historic Centre; Struve Geodetic Arc; Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans; Ancient City of Tauric Chersonese and its Chora; Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine; and The Historic Centre of Odesa.
The single natural property is Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe.
The Struve Geodetic Arc and the Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region are transnational properties shared with other countries.
Ukraine ratified the World Heritage Convention on 12 October 1988.