Ukraine (Україна)

Official name: Ukraine
Also known as: Україна (Ukrainian), Ukrayina

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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.)
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)
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
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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
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.