page_title: Budjak
section_title: Subdivisions
hierarchical_section_title: Budjak / Subdivisions
caption_attribution_description: English: Administrative divisions of Buceag / southern Bessarabia / western Odesa Oblast
context_page_description: Budjak or Budzhak is a historical region in Ukraine and Moldova. Lying along the Black Sea between the Danube and Dniester rivers, this thinly populated multi-ethnic 600,000-people region of 13,188 km² is located in the southern part of historical Bessarabia. Nowadays, the larger part of the region is included in Ukraine's Odessa Oblast, while the rest is included in the southern districts of Moldova. The region is bordered to the north by the rest of Moldova, to the west and south by Romania, and to the east by the Black Sea and the rest of Ukraine.
context_section_description: The historical territory of Budjak is now subdivided into two cities and nine administrative districts (raions) of Ukraine's Odessa Oblast:
caption: Raion subdivision of Budjak territory
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