Ukraine, Europe
This post was last updated by José of onez on Tuesday, 20 May 2025.

Image of Kyiv, capital city of Ukraine
Ukraine is an Eastern European nation strategically located with vast agricultural resources, advanced IT outsourcing sectors, expanding renewable energy, and resilient infrastructure rebuilding initiatives.
Ukraine in one word would be “Sunflower,” meaning yellow fields.
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Ukraine armorial

Ukraine is a country located in the Eastern Europe sub‑region of the Europe continent.
Ukraine administrative divisions
24 provinces (oblasti'), 1 autonomous republic* (avtonomna respublika), and 2 municipalities** (mista) 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
Easy learning about Ukraine |
The capital city of Ukraine is Kyiv.
Ukraine is located in | Eastern Europe Europe Continent Inhabitants of Ukraine are called Ukrainians |
Ukraine has a population of | 37,732,836 inhabitants within a total area of 603,700 Km2 (375,121 sq mi) (2023 UN data) |
Ukraine’s Global Peace Index (GPI) | 159 (world rank position) GPI scale of 1.90 This means, the closer to 1, the more peaceful the country is... (2024 data from GPI) |
Human Development Index (HDI) | Ukraine HDI ranks in position nº 87 worldwide HDI of 0.779 (0.4 to 1) (2023 data from UNDP) |
Ukraine’s passport | allows visa-free entry to 148 countries Ukraine passport ranks 29th in the world (2025 HP Index data) |
Ukraine GDP per capita is | $6,261 USD (2025 estimated data from IMF) |
Ukraine ’s LGBTI legal status | Same-sex sexual acts are Legal (2025 ILGA data) |
Ukraine EPI (English Proficiency Index) | is classified as Low Proficiency has a score of 489 ranks 70th worldwide (2024 data from EPI) |
Latitude & Longitude | 49° 00' N, 32° 00' E Open in Google Maps |
Neighbouring countries | Poland, Moldova, Hungary, Slovakia, Belarus, Romania, Russia. |
Ukraine Climate | temperate continental; 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; warm summers across the greater part of the country, hot in the south |
Most predominant religion | Orthodox (includes the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), |
Second most predominant religion | Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC), |
Currency name & code | Hryvnia (UAH) |
Internet ccTLD | .ua |
Ukraine calling code | +380 |
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