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•Ukraine, with a territory of 603.7 thousand sq kilometers and a population of 48.4 million people, is one of the biggest countries of Europe. The capital city is Kyiv.

Geography

Ukraine borders on Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Moldova on the west and south-west, and by Belarus

and Russia on the north and north-east; on the south, Ukraine is washed by the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.

Geography

The longest river is the Dnipro, and the biggest mountain chain is the Carpathians.

Geography

The biggest cities of Ukraine are: Kyiv (population 2.6 million); Kharkiv (population 1.6 million); Dnipropetrovsk (population 1.1 million); Odesa (population 1.1 million);

Donetsk (population 1.1 million), and Lviv (population 802 thousand).

Geography

The population of Ukraine is 48 million people. The official language of the country is Ukrainian.

Geography

Ukraine’s climate is temperate continental, and subtropical at the southern coast of the Crimea. The mean

temperature in January is — 5 oC (+ 23 F) and + 20 oC (68 F) in July.

Climate

1 January — New Year’s Day7 January — Christmas8 March — International Women’s DayEaster1-2 May — Labour Days9 May — Victory DayTrinity28 June — Constitution Day24 August — Independence Day

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