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 | Ukraine |
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| Location: |
Eastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea, between Poland and Russia |
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| Area: |
603,700 sq km
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| Climate: |
temperate continental; Mediterranean only on the southern Crimean coast; precipitation disproportionately distributed, highest in west and north, lesser in east and southeast; winters vary from cool along the Black Sea to cold farther inland; summers are warm across the greater part of the country, hot in the south
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| Terrain: |
most of Ukraine consists of fertile plains (steppes) and plateaus, mountains being found only in the west (the Carpathians), and in the Crimean Peninsula in the extreme south |
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| Population: |
49,811,174 (July 1999 est.) |
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| Religions: |
Ukrainian Orthodox¡ªMoscow Patriarchate, Ukrainian Orthodox¡ªKiev Patriarchate, Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox, Ukrainian Catholic (Uniate), Protestant, Jewish |
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| Languages: |
Ukrainian, Russian, Romanian, Polish, Hungarian |
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| Capital: |
Kiev (Kyyiv) |
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