Podolia
or KAMENETZ, a government of West or "White" Russia, N. of Bessarabia, and bordering on the Austrian frontier; area, 16,224 square miles; pop. about 4,250,000, the majority of whom are Russniaks. The surface is a table-land, strewn with hills; nearly three-fourths is either arable or available for pasturage. Since the World War (1914-1918) a part of the independent state of Ukrania.