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Ukraine, Europe

This post was last updated by José of onez on Monday, 19 May 2025.

Kyiv, capital city of Ukraine

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.

Ukraine Flag

Flag of Ukraine

Ukraine armorial

armorial of Ukraine

Ukraine is a country located in the Eastern Europe sub‑region of the Europe continent.

Easy learning about Ukraine

The capital city of Ukraine is Kyiv.

Ukraine is located in Eastern Europe
Europe Continent
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
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Neighbouring countriesPoland, Moldova, Hungary, Slovakia, Belarus, Romania, Russia.
Ukraine Climatetemperate 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 religionOrthodox (includes the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU),
Second most predominant religionUkrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC),
Currency name & code Hryvnia (UAH)
Internet ccTLD.ua
Ukraine calling code+380

Ukraine administrative divisions

24 provinces (oblasti'), 1 autonomous republic* (avtonomna respublika), and 2 municipalities** (mista) with oblast status
  1. Cherkasy
  2. Chernihiv
  3. Chernivtsi
  4. Crimea or Avtonomna Respublika Krym* (Simferopol)
  5. Dnipropetrovsk (Dnipro)
  6. Donetsk
  7. Ivano-Frankivsk
  8. Kharkiv
  9. Kherson
  10. Khmelnytskyi
  11. Kirovohrad (Kropyvnytskyi)
  12. Kyiv**
  13. Kyiv
  14. Luhansk
  15. Lviv
  16. Mykolaiv
  17. Odesa
  18. Poltava
  19. Rivne
  20. Sevastopol**
  21. Sumy
  22. Ternopil
  23. Vinnytsia
  24. Volyn (Lutsk)
  25. Zakarpattia (Uzhhorod)
  26. Zaporizhzhia
  27. Zhytomyr
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. The US Government does not recognize Russia's illegal annexation of Ukraine's Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the municipality of Sevastopol - nor their redesignation as the Republic of Crimea and the Federal City of Sevastopol - neither does the US Government recognize Russia's claimed annexation of Donetsk - Kherson - Luhansk - and Zaporizhzhia oblasts

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