[1] It is located in the historic region of Bukovina (Ukrainian: Буковина), approximately 22 km from the oblast capital, Chernivtsi.

Chornivka is home to the ancestral estate of the Hurmuzachi brothers, a well-known family of Romanian aristocrats, lawyers and historians from the 19th century.

In the 17th century, the estate had been in the possession of the family of Ion Neculce, a Moldavian chronicler.

It had come into the family's possession by marriage, as a wedding gift to Neculce's mother.

The oldest church, built by the Hurmuzachi family, dates back to 1852.