Zatoka, Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi

Zatoka Затoка
Zatoka central park. Zatoka central park.
Coat of arms of Zatoka Coat of arms
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Odessa Oblast
City	Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi
Area
• Total	31 km2 (12 sq mi)
Elevation	28 m (92 ft)
Population (2009)
• Total	1,600
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)

This article is about the town of Zatoka, Odessa Oblast. For the town of Zatoka in Poland, see: Zatoka, Lesser Poland Voivodeship.

Zatoka (Cyrillic: Затoка, Zatoka; Romanian: Zatoca or Bugaz) is an urban-type settlement in southwestern Ukraine. It is administratively part of the port-city of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi. The town is a local beach resort and contains a small port of Buhaz (see Port of Bilhorod-Dnistrovsky).

It is located 60 km from Odessa and 18 km from the city of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi of Odessa Oblast in the historical region of Budjak, southern Bessarabia.

In the Ukrainian it means a bay. The town is located on a sand spit of the Dniester Estuary right next where Dnister flows into the Black Sea.