Key facts about location, terrain, climate, and borders.
Continent
Europe
Area
603,700 km²
Country Bounds
N: 52.3694, S: 44.3904, W: 22.1289, E: 40.2074
Landlocked
No
Coordinates of Capital
Kyiv (50.45, 30.523611)
Terrain
mostly fertile plains (steppes) and plateaus, with mountains found only in the west (the Carpathians) or in the extreme south of the Crimean Peninsula
Climate
temperate continentalMediterranean only on the southern Crimean coastprecipitation disproportionately distributed, highest in west and north, lesser in east and southeastwinters vary from cool along the Black Sea to cold farther inlandwarm summers across the greater part of the country, hot in the south
Border Countries
Belarus 1,111 kmHungary 128 kmMoldova 1,202 kmPoland 498 kmRomania 601 kmRussia 1,944 km, Slovakia 97 km
Administrative & Political
Essential political and administrative details.
Capital
Kyiv
Government Type
Republic
Established
1991
Driving Side
Right
Time zone
UTC +2 hours (During Daylight Saving Time, it shifts to UTC +3 hours)
Population & Society
Key demographic, linguistic, and cultural information.
densest settlement in the eastern (Donbas) and western regions; notable concentrations in and around major urban areas of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Donets'k, Dnipropetrovs'k, and Odesa
Orthodox (includes the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU)Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC)and the Ukrainian Orthodox - Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP))Ukrainian Greek CatholicRoman CatholicProtestantMuslimJewish (2013 est.)
National Symbols
National anthem, symbols, and other important cultural identifiers.
National Anthem
"Shche ne vmerla Ukraina" (Ukraine Has Not Yet Perished)
National Holiday
Independence Day, 24 August (1991); note - 22 January 1918, the day Ukraine first declared its independence from Soviet Russia, and the date the short-lived Western and Greater (Eastern) Ukrainian republics united (1919), is now celebrated as Unity Day
National Symbols
tryzub (trident), sunflower
National Colors
blue, yellow
National Dish
Borscht, Varenyky
Economy
Currency, GDP, and other key economic information.
Metric – Meter (m), Kilogram (kg), Liter (L), Celsius (°C)
Infrastructure
Important identifiers for connectivity and commerce.
Internet TLD
.ua
Calling Code
+380
Barcode Prefix
482
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe, bordered by the Black Sea to the south and neighboring Poland, Romania, and Moldova to the west, while sharing its eastern border with Russia.