The Outline of Ukraine

Ukraine is a sovereign country located in Eastern Europe.
 It borders on Russia in  the east, Belarus in the north, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary in the west, Romania and Moldova in the southwest, and the Black Sea and  the Sea of Azov in the south and southwest.




It has an area of 603,628 km² and is the second largest country on the European continent, after Russia

Ukraine is a unitary state composed of 24 oblasts (provinces), one autonomous republic (Crimea), and two cities with special status: Kiev, its capital, and Sevastopol, which is the base of Ukrainian  Navy and houses the Russian Black Sea Fleet under a leasing agreement.

The national flag  of Ukraine

 

The coat of arms of Ukraine

Cities:
Capital - Kyiv (also transliterated as Kiev, pop. 2.8 million).
Biggest cities - Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Odesa, Lviv( pop.more than 1 million)
Sea ports: Odesa, Sevastopol, Nickolayev, Kherson, Mariupol, Yalta and Kerch

Territory : A vast plain mostly bounded by the Carpathian Mountains in the southwest and by the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov in the South.

The main rivers: the Dnieper (Dnipro), Seversky Donets, Dniester and the Southern Buh

Natural resources : iron ore, coal, manganese, natural gas, oil, salt, sulfur, graphite, titanium, magnesium, kaolin, nickel, mercury, timber and an abundance of arable land.

Climate: Continental temperate; sub-tropical in southern Crimea

PEOPLE
Population (est.): 45,888,000
Nationality: Noun--Ukrainian(s); adjective--Ukrainian.
Ethnic groups: Ukrainians, Russians, Belarusians, Moldovans, Hungarians, Bulgarians, Jews, Poles, Crimean Tatars, and other groups.
Religions: Ukrainian Orthodoxy, Ukrainian Greek Catholicism, Judaism, Roman Catholicism, Islam, others.
Languages: Ukrainian (official), Russian, others.

CULTURE
Famous poets and writers : Ivan Kotlyarevsky, Mykola Kostomarov, Taras Shevchenko(1814-1861), Ivan Franko(1856-1916), Olga Kobylanska,  Lesya Ukrainka (1871-1913), Maksym Rylsky, Vasyl Stus and others.
Artists:   Volodymyr Borovykovsky, Apollon Mokrytsky, Ivan Aivazovsky, Teofil Kopystynsky and others
Composers: Mykola Lysenko,   Semen Hulak Artemovsky•  Mykola Leontovych. •  Dmytro Bortniansky. Kyrylo Stetsenko, Yakiv Stepovy, Myroslav Skoryk.,  Volodymyr Ivasiuk

Scientists: Mykhaylo Maksymovych Yuri Kondratyuk,  Leonid Kadeniuk ,  Vladimir Chelomei, Nikolai Amosov and others