Ukraine Country Info - Europe

Description and Basic Information

Ukraine with its capital Kiev is located in Europe (Eastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea). It covers some 603,701 square kilometres (slightly smaller than Texas) with 45,994,000 citizens. Ukrainian, Russian, Polish and Hungarian are the languages commonly used by the people in Ukraine (consider regional differences). Poland, Moldova, Hungary, Slovakia, Belarus, Romania and Russia are bordering countries.

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. The quickest way to get around big cities is the so-called marshrutka: the minibuses which follow routes much like the regular buses do. You can generally flag them down or ask them to stop at places other than the specified bus stops. The fare is paid as soon as you get in, and is fixed no matter how far you want to go. Ukrainian cuisine is quite tasty, but just as other cuisines in the region uses a lot of fat ingredients, especially in the festive dishes. Traditional local food includes salo (salted lard) and soups like borshch (борщ in Ukrainian) made of red beets or solianka (солянка in Ukrainian) which is a delicious meat soup.

Pictures from Capital (Kiev)

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About Ukraine

The landscape features most of Ukraine consists of fertile plains (steppes) and plateaus, mountains being found only in the west (the Carpathians), and in the Crimean Peninsula in the extreme south. The average density of population is about 76 per km². The climate in Ukraine can be described as temperate continental with Mediterranean only on the southern Crimean coast, precipitation disproportionately distributed, highest in west and north, lesser in east and southeast, winters vary from cool along the Black Sea to cold farther inland, summers are warm across the greater part of the country, hot in the south. Potential threats by nature are NA.

To reach someone in Ukraine dial +380 prior to a number. There are 13,026,000 installed telephones. And there are 55,333,000 registered mobile phones. The cellular networks operate on frequencies of 900, 1800 Mhz. Websites typically end with the top level domain ".ua". If you want to bring electric appliances (e.g. battery charger), keep in mind the local 220V - 50Hz. The following list are the 27 regions/states in Ukraine we know off.

Demographic Statistics

In the year 2010, the total Ukrainian population shrinked at a rate of -0.62% (or by 280,668 citizens). With 713,025 deaths and 436,898 babies born, the natural increase rate lies at -0.61%. -4,542 persons more in total emmigrated from the country than immigrated.

An overview of age distribution in Ukraine: Each pair of bars represents a single age group (male/female). Each group is spanning 5 years. E.g. 0 to 5 years, 5 to 10 etc. and group "0 to 5" being at the left end and "100 +" at the right end of the chart.

Based on content from wikitravel.org. The original article can be found here based on the work of these users.
Geographic information is based on the data provided by geonames.org, CIA factsbook and Unesco.