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Ukraine quick facts

Ukraine total area: 603,628 sq. km.
Ukraine boundaries: North - Belarus; East - Russian Federation; South - Black Sea; West - Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Moldova.
Ukraine elevations: highest - Mount Hoverla (6,702 feet, or 2,043 meters); lowest - Kyleutske, in the Crimea (59 feet, or 18 meters).
Ukraine population: 46,314,000 (2007 est).
Ukraine capital and largest cities: Kiev, Lvov, Odessa, Donetsk.
Ukraine major languages: Ukrainian and Russian.

Flag of Ukraine

Coat of arms of Ukraine

Ukraine major religious groups: Orthodox Christians, Greek Catholics (Uniates), Baptists, and Jews.
Ukraine international phone code: +380.
Ukraine currency: Hryvnia (UAH).
Ukraine Internet TLD: .ua

Ukraine world map location

Ukraine overview

Ukraine, (Ukrainian spelling Ukraina), country in southeastern Europe, the second largest of the continent after Russia.
Economically, Ukraine is a major industrial and agricultural producer. Ukraine country is well endowed in natural resources and has long been known as Europe's and later the USSR's breadbasket.
Ukraine consists almost entirely of level plains and occupies a large portion of East European Plain. Central part of Ukraine consists of Dnepr Lowland, through which Dnepr River runs from north to south.

Ukraine beautiful nature

Author: Anton Gvozdikov

Ukraine country landscape

Author: Leonid Perevozchikov

Ukraine country scenery

Author: Alexander Naumov

Other lowlands extend along the shores of Black and Azov seas in southern Ukraine, while Crimean Peninsula, in the extreme south, has both lowlands and low mountains. Western Ukraine has some uplands, and Carpathian Mountains extend through that region for more than 150 miles (240 km).
Ukraine lies in temperate climatic zone and receives 16 to 24 inches (400 to 600 mm) of precipitation annually. Dnepr, Don, Dnestr and other rivers all drain southward through the plains to empty into Azov-Black Sea Basin. Ukraine's most important river, Dnepr river, is extensively dammed along much of its course for hydroelectric and irrigation purposes.
Ethnic Ukrainians make up more than seven-tenths of the total population. Ukrainian language is closely related to Russian and Belorussian and belongs to Slavic group of languages.
Russians are the largest minority group, accounting for about two-tenths of the population. The highest population densities are found in industrialized Donets Coal Basin and Dnepr regions and in agriculturally productive forest-steppe belt.
Illiteracy was virtually eliminated during the Soviet period, and education is now compulsory between the ages of 7 and 17. In higher education, Ukrainian is once again becoming main language of instruction after being displaced by Russian during the Soviet period. Primary and secondary schools using Russian still prevail in Donets Basin and in the southern part of Ukraine, where there are large Russian minorities.

Kiev city houses view

Author: Sergei Leshchinsky

Saint Michael cathedral