Country guide
Ukraine
Capital, flag, borders and quick geography facts for Ukraine.
Key facts
- Capital
- Kyiv
- Region
- Europe
- Area
- 603,550 km²
- Population
- 32,862,000
Neighboring countries
Ukraine has 7 land neighbors in the country data.
Learn Ukraine
Kyiv is Ukraine's capital. Ukraine holds nearly a quarter of the world's chernozem, an exceptionally fertile black soil.
Ukraine covers 603,550 square kilometers, bordering Belarus, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, and Slovakia, with Russia as its largest neighbor. Mount Hoverla, rising 2,061 meters in the Ukrainian Carpathians, is Ukraine's highest peak.
At roughly 2,500 kilometers, the Odesa Catacombs rank among the largest underground tunnel networks in the world.
Trivia
- Ukraine holds nearly a quarter of the world's chernozem, the exceptionally fertile black soil prized by farmers worldwide.
- The Odesa Catacombs form one of the largest networks of underground tunnels in the world, stretching roughly 2,500 kilometers.
- The Sea of Azov, bordering Ukraine's southern coast, is the shallowest sea in the world, with a maximum depth of only about 14 meters.
- Mount Hoverla, rising 2,061 meters in the Ukrainian Carpathians, is the highest peak in Ukraine.
- Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, founded in 1051 as a cave monastery, is the oldest monastic complex of Kyivan Rus'.
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