Ukraine
(Ukrayina)
Capital: Kiev (Kyiv)
Population (Estimated July 2012): 44,854,065
Area: 603,628km2 or 233,062mi2
Currency: Hryvnya (UAH)
Official Language: Ukrainian
Political Information: Parliamentary Republic
Official Religion: No Official Religion (approximately 50.4% of the population is Ukrainian Orthodox – Kyiv Patriarchate, 26.1% are Ukrainian Orthodox – Moscow Patriarchate, 8% are Ukrainian Greek Catholic, 7% are Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox, 2.2% are Roman Catholic, 2.2% are Protestant, 0.6% are Jewish and 3.2% have other religious beliefs)
Highest Mountain: Hora Hoverla at 2,061m or 6,762ft
Time Zone (GMT/UTC): +2:00
Wildlife:
Counties/Provinces/States: 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
Leaders: President Volodymyr Zelenskyy; Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal
Additional: Gained independence from the Soviet Union on the 24th of August 1991.
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