Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe, with its capital at Kyiv, and is home to roughly 37.9M people.
Ukrainian is the official language; the currency in circulation is Ukrainian hryvnia (₴); people from here are called Ukrainian.
- »Ukraine has more of the world's black earth chernozem than any other country, among the most fertile soils on Earth.
- »It is the largest country entirely within Europe.
Ukraine touches seven neighbours: Belarus to the northwest, Hungary to the west, Moldova to the southwest, Poland to the northwest, Romania to the southwest, Russia to the northeast and Slovakia to the west. Directions run from one centre to the other.
Kyiv is far older than Moscow, founded by the 5th century and the centre of Kyivan Rus. Its cave monastery, the Lavra, has been a pilgrimage site for nearly a thousand years.
569,361 km² (219,831 sq mi), 47th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Botswana.
Population 37,860,221, 41st of 198 on file. That averages 66 per km² (172 per sq mi).
Blue over yellow, universally read as blue sky above ripening wheat, one of the few national flags whose meaning is essentially a landscape.