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where was chernobyl located

Chernobyl was located in what is now northern Ukraine , near the border with Belarus, about 90 kilometers (around 56 miles) north of Kyiv.

Quick Scoop: Where Was Chernobyl Located?

  • Chernobyl is a partially abandoned city in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine.
  • The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was situated near the purpose-built workers’ city of Pripyat , about 16 km northwest of Chernobyl itself.
  • The area lies close to the Ukrainian–Belarusian border , in northern Ukraine.
  • It is now inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone , established after the 1986 nuclear disaster.

In simple terms: Chernobyl was in the northern part of Soviet Ukraine (now independent Ukraine), not far from Kyiv and near Belarus.

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