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Short name
Ukraine
Local names
Ukrayina (short)
Former name
Ukrainian National Republic, Ukrainian State, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
Nationality
Ukrainian(s) (noun) Ukrayina (adjective)
Languages spoken
Ukrainian (official) 67%, Russian 24%, other 9% (includes small Romanian-, Polish-, and Hungarian-speaking minorities)
Capital
Kyiv (Kiev)
Government type
republic
Population
45,994,288 ranked 29, (data 2008)
Geography
strategic position at the crossroads between Europe and Asia; second-largest country in Europe. The lowest point is Black Sea 0 m.
Coastline
Coastline 2,782 km.
Land borders
4,566km, Belarus 891 km, Hungary 103 km, Moldova 940 km, Poland 428 km, Romania (south) 176 km, Romania (southwest) 362 km, Russia 1,576 km, Slovakia 90 km.
Administrative divisions
24 provinces (oblasti, singular - oblast'), 1 autonomous republic* (avtonomna respublika), and 2 municipalities (mista, singular - misto) with oblast status**; Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Chernivtsi, Crimea or Avtonomna Respublika Krym* (Simferopol'), Dnipropetrovs'k, Donets'k, Ivano-Frankivs'k, Kharkiv, Kherson, Khmel'nyts'kyy, Kirovohrad, Kyiv**, Kyiv, Luhans'k, L'viv, Mykolayiv, Odesa, Poltava, Rivne, Sevastopol'**, Sumy, Ternopil', Vinnytsya, Volyn' (Luts'k), Zakarpattya (Uzhhorod), Zaporizhzhya, Zhytomyr
administrative divisions have the same names as their administrative centers (exceptions have the administrative center name following in parentheses)
Independence
24 August 1991 (from Soviet Union)