| Geography | Ukraine |
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Location:
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Eastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea, between Poland, Romania, and Moldova in the west and Russia in the east |
Geographic coordinates:
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49 00 N, 32 00 E |
Map references:
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Asia, Europe |
Area:
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total: 603,700 sq km
land: 603,700 sq km
water: 0 sq km |
Area - comparative:
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slightly smaller than Texas |
Land boundaries:
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total: 4,566 km
border countries: 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 |
Coastline:
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2,782 km |
Maritime claims:
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territorial sea: 12 nm
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
continental shelf: 200 m or to the depth of exploitation |
Climate:
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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 |
Terrain:
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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 |
Elevation extremes:
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lowest point: Black Sea 0 m
highest point: Hora Hoverla 2,061 m |
Natural resources:
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iron ore, coal, manganese, natural gas, oil, salt, sulfur, graphite, titanium, magnesium, kaolin, nickel, mercury, timber, arable land |
Land use:
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arable land: 53.8%
permanent crops: 1.5%
other: 44.7% (2005) |
Irrigated land:
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22,080 sq km (2003) |
Total renewable water resources:
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139.5 cu km (1997) |
Total renewable water resources - per capita:
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3,053 cubic meters per capita |
Freshwater withdrawal (domestic/industrial/agricultural):
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Total: 37.53 cu km/yr (12%/35%/52%)
Per capita: 807 cu m/yr (2000) |
Natural hazards:
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NA |
Environment - current issues:
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inadequate supplies of potable water; air and water pollution; deforestation; radiation contamination in the northeast from 1986 accident at Chornobyl' Nuclear Power Plant |
Environment - international agreements:
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party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Sulfur 85, Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands
signed, but not ratified: Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Air Pollution-Sulfur 94, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds |
Geography - note:
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strategic position at the crossroads between Europe and Asia; second-largest country in Europe |
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