Chernobyl is located in northern Ukraine, near the border with Belarus. The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant sits about 90 kilometers (roughly 60 miles) north of Kyiv, with the town of Chernobyl itself (Pripyat nearby) lying within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone established after the 1986 disaster. The site is in the Kyiv Oblast, in the northern part of the country, and is often referenced in connection with the Pripyat river valley and the Pripyat city nearby.