Although it occupies only one third of the Ukrainian land mass, western Ukraine hosts a majority of the ethnic groups of Ukraine, and has a huge variety of traditional pysanka styles and designs.

The huge variety is probably due to the landscape: this part of the country is, geographically speaking, much more varied than the east, consisting of mountains, forests, and forest-steppes. In biology it is well known that isolation due to geography causes speciation; in ethnography, the same can be said about the development of ethnic groups within a nation. 

The pysanky of Ukraine's mountain dwellers are among the most intricate and complex, and the most varied.  The Hutsuls and Bukovynians write some of the most diverse and most detailed pysanky in Ukraine.  The Lemky, along with the Boiky, have taken to drop-pull and mastered the art form.

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