| Official name | Ukraine |
| Name in local language | (Ukrayina) (uk) |
| Continent | Europe |
| Subcontinent | Europe (outside the European Union) |
| Population (ranking: 35e) | 41,167,336 inhabitants (2022) |
| Population growth | -1.02 % / year |
| Area | 576,468 km² |
| Density | 71.41 inhabitants / km² |
| GDP (ranking: 59e) | 155.499 billions $USD (2020) |
| GDP/capita (ranking) | 3,725 $USD (2020) |
| GDP growth | -4.00 % / year (2020) |
| Life expectancy (ranking) | 72.00 years (2018) |
| Birth rate | 7.80 ‰ (2020) |
| Fertility rate | 1.51 children / woman (2014) |
| Death rate (ranking) | 15.90 ‰ (2020) |
| Infant mortality rate (ranking) | 7.90 ‰ (2015) |
| Literacy rate | 99.76 % (2015) |
| Official languages | Ukrainian |
| Currency | Ukrainian hryvnia ( UAH) |
| HDI (ranking: 101e) | 0.779 / 1 (2019) |
| EPI (ranking) | 52.87 (2018) |
| Government | Unitary semi-presidential constitutional republic |
| Head of State | President Volodymyr Zelensky |
| National Day | 24 August (declaration of independence of 1991) |
| ISO Codes | UA, UKR |
| Demonym | Ukrainian |
| Tourists (ranking) | 14,207,000 people (2018) |
A country divided in two
Ukraine is a state of Eastern Europe, the second largest in Europe after the European part of Russia (which includes 4 320 025 km2) and before France. Ukraine is bordered by the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov to the south, Russia to the north and east, Belorussia to the north, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary to the west and Romania and the Moldova to the southwest.
Kiev, capital city of Ukraine 
Ukraine – Legislative elections results (2012) For practical reasons, we removed the Crimea from the statistics of Ukraine, and added it to those of Russia. Crimea is de facto under the control (military and administrative) of Russia.
Urban areas (2017)
| Kiev | 4,660,231 inhabitants |
| Kharkiv (Kharkov) | 1,732,432 inhabitants |
| Donetsk | 1,623,194 inhabitants |
| Dnipro (Dniepropetrovsk) | 1,460,195 inhabitants |
| Odessa | 1,008,852 inhabitants |
| Zaporijia (Zaporoji) | 812,472 inhabitants |
| Kryvy Rih | 805,303 inhabitants |
| Lviv (Lvov) | 728,350 inhabitants |
| Kramatorsk | 620,299 inhabitants |
| Kadvka (Stakhanov) | 550,373 inhabitants |
| Louhansk | 543,269 inhabitants |
| Horlivka | 502,392 inhabitants |
| Mykolav (Nikolaev) | 492,775 inhabitants |
| Marioupol | 453,623 inhabitants |
| Vinnytsia (Vinnitsa) | 452,474 inhabitants |
| Krementchouk | 450,451 inhabitants |
| Kherson | 294,941 inhabitants |
| Tchernihiv | 293,969 inhabitants |
| Poltava | 293,302 inhabitants |
| Tcherkassy | 283,356 inhabitants |
| Khmelnytsky | 269,308 inhabitants |
| Sievierodonetsk - Lyssytchansk | 268,252 inhabitants |
| Soumy | 267,633 inhabitants |
| Jytomyr | 267,610 inhabitants |
| Tchernivtsi | 266,550 inhabitants |
Administrative divisions
| Donetsk | 4,244,057 inhabitants | 26,517 km² |
| Dnipropetrovsk | 3,230,411 inhabitants | 31,914 km² |
| Kiev (City) | 2,925,760 inhabitants | 839 km² |
| Kharkiv | 2,701,188 inhabitants | 31,415 km² |
| Lviv | 2,534,027 inhabitants | 21,833 km² |
| Odessa | 2,386,516 inhabitants | 33,310 km² |
| Luhansk | 2,195,290 inhabitants | 26,684 km² |
| Kiev (Oblast) | 1,734,471 inhabitants | 28,131 km² |
| Vinnytsia | 1,590,357 inhabitants | 26,513 km² |
| Poltava | 1,426,828 inhabitants | 28,748 km² |
| Ivano-Frankivsk | 1,379,915 inhabitants | 13,928 km² |
| Khmelnytskyi | 1,285,267 inhabitants | 20,645 km² |
| Zakarpattia | 1,258,777 inhabitants | 12,777 km² |
| Zhytomyr | 1,240,482 inhabitants | 29,832 km² |
| Cherkasy | 1,231,207 inhabitants | 20,900 km² |
| Rivne | 1,162,763 inhabitants | 20,047 km² |
| Mykolaiv | 1,150,126 inhabitants | 24,598 km² |
| Sumy | 1,104,529 inhabitants | 23,834 km² |
| Ternopil | 1,059,192 inhabitants | 13,823 km² |
| Kherson | 1,055,649 inhabitants | 28,461 km² |
| Volyn | 1,040,954 inhabitants | 20,144 km² |
| Chernihiv | 1,033,412 inhabitants | 31,865 km² |
| Kirovohrad | 965,756 inhabitants | 24,588 km² |
| Chernivtsi | 908,120 inhabitants | 8,097 km² |
| Zaporizhia | 173,948 inhabitants | 27,180 km² |
See also