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Business in Ukraine: Country and People
Here you will get to know more about the administrative structure, the population as well as geographic data of Ukraine...
General administrative structure
Flag of Ukraine
Conventional short form:
Ukraine (Ukrayina)
Conventional long form:
none
Total area (km²): 1)
603.700 km²
Population: 1)
45.994.288 (July 2008 est.)
Capital:
Kiev
Government type: 1)
republic
Chief of state: 1)
President Viktor A. Yushchenko (since 23 January 2005)
Head of government: 1)
Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko (since 18 December 2007)
Administrative districts:
24 provinces, 1 autonomous republic* and 2 municipalities with province-status** :
Cherkasy Chernihiv Chernivtsi Crimea / Avtonomna Respublika Krym* (Simferopol) Dnipropetrovs'k Donets'k Ivano-Frankivs'k Kharkiv Kherson Khmel'nyts'kyy Kirovohrad Kiev (Kyyiv)** Kyyiv Luhans'k
L'viv Mykolayiv Odesa Poltava Rivne Sevastopol** Sumy Ternopil Vinnytsya Volyn (Luts'k) Zakarpattya (Uzhhorod) Zaporizhzhya Zhytomyr
Official language:
Ukrainian
Currency (code):
Hryvnia (UAH)
Country code:
00380
Country symbol:
UA
Internet country code:
.ua
National holiday:
24 August (1991)
Age structure (2008 est.):1)
0-14 years:
13.9% (m: 3.277.905; f: 3.106.012)
15-64 years:
70.0% (m: 15.443.818; f: 16.767.931)
65 years and over:
16.1% (m: 2.489.235; f: 4.909.386)
Median age (2008 est.): 1)
total:
39.4 years
male:
36.1 years
female:
42.5 years
Ethnic groups (2001): 1)
Ukrainian:
77.8%
Russian:
17.3%
Belarussian:
0.6%
Moldovan:
0.5%
Crimean Tatar:
0.5%
Bulgarian:
0.4%
other:
2.9%
Languages: 1)
Ukrainian (official) besides Russian (widespread)
Mobile phones: 1) 55.240.000 (2007)
Internet hosts: 1) 234.349 (2007)
Internet users: 1) 10.000.000 (2007)
Geographic location:
Eastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea, between Poland, Romania, and Moldova in the west and Russia in the east
Land boundaries: 1)
4.663 km
Border countries: 1)
Belarus: 891 km Hungary: 103 km Moldova: 939 km Poland: 526 km Romania: 531 km Russia: 1.576 km Slovakia: 97 km
Coastline: 1)
2.782 km
Natural resources: 1)
iron ore, coal, manganese, natural gas, oil, salt, sulfur, graphite, titanium, magnesium, kaolin, nickel, mercury, timber, arable land
Climate: 1)
temperate continental; Mediterranean only on the southern Crimean coast; 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.
Soruces of information: 1) CIA World Factbook, updated on 9 October, 2008
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