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General Facts About Ukraine
1) Territory: The territory of Ukrainian
State is 603,700 km2, or 5.7% of European territory and 0.44% of world's
territory. Its territory is bigger than those of France (544,000 km2),
Spain (505,000 km2), Sweden (450,000 km2), Germany (356,000 km2) and Poland
(312,000 km2).
2) Population: Ukraine has 49.5 mln.
residents (as of beginning of 2001). In terms of population, Ukraine ranks
5th in Europe (after Germany, Italy, Great Britain and France) and 21st
in the world. It has 7.3% of Europe's and 1% of global population. The
majority of people (68%) live in urban areas. 32% live in countryside.
More than 14,000,000 people of other ethnic groups live in Ukraine, comprising
27% of nation's population. The biggest national minority are Russians
(11,400,000 people, 21% of population). For ages, Crimean Tatars, Jews,
Romanians, Moldavians, Belarussians, Bulgarians, Poles, Hungarians, Greeks,
Armenians, Gypsies, Germans, Azerbaijani, Gagaus, Uzbeks, Lithuanians,
Kazakhs, Czechs, Slovaks and people of other ethnic groups have been living
in Ukraine.
3) Administrative and territorial system:
Ukraine is comprised from the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and 24 oblasts:
Vinnitsa, Volyn, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zhitomir, Zakarpattya, Zaporizhzhya,
Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv, Kirovograd, Lugansk, Lviv, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Poltava,
Rivne, Sumy, Ternopil, Kharkiv, Kherson, Khmelnitsky, Cherkasy, Chernigiv,
Chernivtsy.
The cities of Kyiv and Sevastopol have a special status set by the laws
of Ukraine. Ukraine has 490 rayons (regions), 446 cities, 907 towns and
10,196 villages.
4) General foundations of political system:
General foundations of political system of Ukraine are defined by its
Constitution. In accordance with its organic law, Ukraine is a sovereign
and independent, democratic, social and jural state.
5) Capital: Kyiv
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