Capital of Ukraine:
Kyiv (Київ)
Area of Ukraine: 603,500 km² (233,013 mi²) (
47th)
Population of Ukraine: 37,860,221 (
42th) - (2024 est.)
Location: Ukraine is located in Eastern Europe.
Languages of Ukraine: Ukrainian (official) 67.5%,
Russian (regional language) 29.6%, other (includes
Crimean Tatar,
Urum (Turkic Greeks),
Bulgarian,
Moldovan/
Romanian,
Polish, and
Hungarian-speaking minorities) 2.9% (2001 est.)
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note: in February 2018, the Constitutional Court ruled that 2012 language legislation entitling a language spoken by at least 10% of an oblast's population to be given the status of "regional language" – allowing for its use in courts, schools, and other government institutions – was unconstitutional, thus making the law invalid; Ukrainian remains the country's only official nationwide language.
Religions of Ukraine: Eastern Orthodox 71.2%,
Catholic 9.89%,
Protestant 1.98%,
Other Christian 1.98%,
Muslim 0.99%, Other 2.08%, Atheist 9.89%, Unanswered 1.98% (2024 est.)Ethnic groups of Ukraine: Ukrainian 77.8%,
Russian 17.3%, Belarusian 0.6%, Moldovan 0.5%, Crimean Tatar 0.5%, Bulgarian 0.4%, Hungarian 0.3%, Romanian 0.3%, Polish 0.3%, Jewish 0.2%,
other 1.8% (2001 est.)
Currency:
Hryvnia (₴) (
UAH)
Time zone:
UTC+2 (
EET), Summer (
DSTDaylight saving time (DST), also referred to as daylight saving(s), daylight savings time, daylight time (United States and Canada), or summer time (United Kingdom, European Union, and others), is the practice of advancing clocks to make better use of the longer daylight available during summer so that darkness falls at a later clock time. The typical implementation of DST is to set clocks forward by one hour in spring or late winter, and to set clocks back by one hour to standard time in the autumn (or fall in North American English, hence the mnemonic: 'spring forward and fall back').)
UTC+3 (
EEST)
Calling code: (
+380)
Organizations: United Nations, Commonwealth of Independent States
Border countries (7):
Belarus 1,111 km,
Hungary 128 km,
Moldova 1,202 km,
Poland 498 km,
Romania 601 km,
Russia 1,944 km,
Slovakia 97 km.
Coastline: Black Sea 2,782 km (1,729 mi)
Maritime boundaries: Black Sea, Sea of Azov
Administrative divisions of Ukraine
24 provinces, 1 autonomous republic*, and 2 municipalities** with oblast status:
Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Chernivtsi, Crimea or Avtonomna Respublika Krym* (Simferopol), Dnipropetrovsk (Dnipro), Donetsk, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Khmelnytskyi, Kirovohrad (Kropyvnytskyi), Kyiv**, Kyiv, Luhansk, Lviv, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Poltava, Rivne, Sevastopol**, Sumy, Ternopil, Vinnytsia, Volyn (Lutsk), Zakarpattia (Uzhhorod), Zaporizhzhia, Zhytomyr
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note: administrative divisions have the same names as their administrative centers (exceptions have the administrative center name following in parentheses); plans include the eventual renaming of Dnipropetrovsk and Kirovohrad oblasts, but because these names are mentioned in the Constitution of Ukraine, the change will require a constitutional amendment.
Natural resources: Significant natural resources in Ukraine include: iron ore, manganese,
natural gas, titanium, kaolin, uranium, and arable land.