The article analyzes the socio-cultural and civic self-identification of the Ukraine inhabitants, its regional differences, in particular the features of civic self-identification of the population of the western region of Ukraine. Indicators of civic self-identification of the adult population of the country are important qualitative and quantitative characteristics of Ukrainian nation development both at the regional and national levels, and in the context of Ukraine's European integration policy. The predominant identities of the population of Ukraine as a whole are national-state as well as local. During the existence of independent Ukraine, there are three stages of raising the national-civic identity, the boundaries between which clearly coincide with the two bifurcation crises (Maidans) in 2004-2005 and 2013-2014. Western Ukraine occupies a special place among other macro-regions of Ukraine. In particular, this region is distinguished by the following factors: 1) it was one of the last (after the inclusion of Transcarpathia after the Second World War) to take shape territorially as an integral macro-region of Ukraine; 2) West of Ukraine is a macro-region of Ukraine, in several administrative units of which (Zakarpattia and Chernivtsi regions) there are areas of compact residence of national minorities (Hungarian and Romanian); 3) the region has an important geopolitical significance, as a space through which communication between Western and Eastern Europe takes place. In the foreign policy sphere, Western Ukraine can become a kind of "showcase" of European Ukraine, a bridge to the West, and at the same time - a region of Ukrainian nationalism and reactionism (Wozniak, 1998. ji.lviv.ua); 4) the strong political potential of Western Ukraine, due to the deep democratic traditions associated with Austro-Hungarian, Czechoslovak and Polish parliamentarism, the structure of society by political orientation, its sufficient organization. The predominant identities of the population of Western Ukraine are national-state and local. The peculiarity of Western Ukraine is a significantly more pronounced national-state identity compared to other regions and to the country as a whole throughout the period of Independence, as well as the complete disappearance of the remaining "post-Soviet" identity, which is confidently replaced by ethnic self-identification. Despite the state's declared course towards European integration and significant progress in this direction, European identity is not a priority for residents of any region of Ukraine, including the West. In terms of the ratio of Ukrainian and European identities, Western Ukraine has confirmed its reputation as perhaps the most Ukraine-centric macro-region of Ukraine

Ukrainian nation, identity, self-awareness, regions, Ukraine, Western Ukraine