Potelych has an area of 30 square kilometres (11 sq mi) and an elevation of 258 metres (846 ft).

Previously, the village was a small town called Telych (Ukrainian: Телич).

It was a big economic center on the trade route between Lublin and Lviv.

In the 17th century, it fell into disrepair due to relocation of trade route northerly to Rava-Ruska.

[3] Also in Potelych is located one of the largest German military cemeteries of victims of the Second World War in Ukraine.