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Sula
Native name	Сула
Location
Country	Ukraine
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Sumy Oblast
Mouth	Dnieper
• coordinates	49°33′19″N 32°45′16″E / 49.5553°N 32.7544°E / 49.5553; 32.7544
Length	363 km (226 mi)
Basin size	19,600 km (7,600 sq mi)
Discharge
• average	29 m
Basin features
Progression	Dnieper→ Dnieper–Bug estuary→ Black Sea
Tributaries
• right	Romen, Uday

The Sula (Ukrainian: Сула́; Russian: Су́ла) is a left tributary of the Dnieper with a total length of 363 kilometres (226 mi) and a drainage basin of 19,600 square kilometres (7,600 sq mi).

The river flows into the Dnieper through the Kremenchuk Reservoir, with which it forms a large delta with numerous islands, on which rare kinds of birds live. An important tributary is the Uday, smaller ones being Orzhytsya, Sliporid, Romen and Tern.

Large cities located on the river are Romny, Lokhvytsia and Lubny.

Etymology

The river's name evokes slow or muddy waters considering the words it is related to: Lithuanian/Latvian sulà "birch sap", Old Prussian sulo "curdled milk", Norwegian dialectal saula "dirt", Sanskrit súrā "spiritous liquor", and Avestan hurā "intoxicating drink, kumis". Another etymology of the hydronym Sula is the Turkic suly, 'filled with water, wet'.

References

1. ^ "Сула (река, приток Днепра)" (in Russian). Большая Советская Энциклопедия. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
2. Izsák Tibor (2007). Ukrajna természeti földrajza (pdf) (in Hungarian). II. Rákóczi Ferenc Kárpátaljai Magyar Főiskola. p. 95. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
3. "NÉVJEGYZÉK-SZÓTÁR az UKRAJNA TERMÉSZETI FÖLDRAJZA tantárgyhoz" (pdf) (in Hungarian). II. Rákóczi Ferenc Kárpátaljai Magyar Főiskola. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
4. "Sula River". Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
5. Orel, Vladimir. A Handbook of Germanic Etymology. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2003: 320.
6. Yu.N. Drozdov, 2008, Türkic Ethnonymy Of European Peoples, Moscow, "Reliance", ISBN 978-5-904215-04-0, p.247

v t e Dnieper River
Tributaries	Bazavluk Berezina Bilozerka Desna Drut Inhulets Irpin Konka (Kherson) Konka (Zaporizhzhia) Oril Pripyat Psel Rohachyk Ros Samara Sozh Stuhna Sula Supii Teteriv Tiasmyn Trubizh Vorskla Zolotonoshka
Reservoirs	Dnieper Kakhovka Kamianske Kaniv Kremenchuk Kyiv
Hydroelectric stations	Dnieper Kakhovka Kaniv Kyiv HPP Kyiv PSP Kremenchuk Middle Dnieper
Canals	Dnipro – Donbas Dnipro – Inhulets Dnipro – Kryvyi Rih Kakhovka North Crimean
Cities	Cherkasy Dnipro Dorogobuzh Kyiv Mogilev Smolensk
Crossings	in Ukraine
Italics indicate left tributaries

v t e Rivers of Ukraine by tributary or drainage basin
Black Sea	Alma Chorna Danube Dnieper Tylihul Uchan-su Velykyi Kuialnyk
Bug	Poltva Solokiia
Danube	Prut Tisza
Dnieper (Rapids)	Bazavluk Desna Oster Seym Snov Sudost Inhulets Vysun Irpin Khorol Oril Pripyat Psel Ros Samara Vovcha Sula Udai Umanka Teteriv Tiasmyn Vorskla
Dniester	Barysh Bystrytsia Tysmenytska Seret Tysmenytsia Dzhuryn Hnyla Lypa Hnizna Hnizdechna Koropets Murafa Nichlava Nichlavka Samets Stavky Seret Bila Smotrych Strwiąż Stryi Opir Zbruch Zolota Lypa Zubra
Don	Derkul Polnaya Komyshna Siverskyi Donets Aidar Kharkiv Kazennyi Torets Krasna Kundryuchya Lopan Luhan Udy Vovcha Oskil
Pripyat	Horyn Sluch Stokhid Stsviha Styr Ikva Turiia Ubort Uzh
San	Lubaczówka Wiar
Sea of Azov	Kalmius Mius Krynka Molochna
Southern Bug	Chychyklia Inhul Syniukha Hnylyi Tikych Velyka Vys
Syvash	Salhyr (Zuya)

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• Tributaries of the Dnieper
• Ukraine river stubs
• Rivers of Chernihiv Oblast
• Rivers of Sumy Oblast