Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Kyiv
- Region
- Europe, Eastern Europe
- Population
- 38,980,376 (2025)
- Area
- 603,700 km²
- Currency
- Ukrainian hryvnia (UAH)
- Languages
- Ukrainian, Russian, Romany, Polish, Hungarian
- Calling code
- +380
- Internet domain
- .ua, .укр
- ISO codes
- UA, UKR, 804
- Time zone
- UTC+2:00 to UTC+3:00
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- ##### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Ukraine covers about 603,700 square kilometres. By area it ranks 46th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Central African Republic and a little larger than Botswana. It shares a land border with 7 neighbours: Belarus, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia. Its centre lies at about 49° north, 32° east, in the northern hemisphere.
Neighbours
BelarusMinsk
HungaryBudapest
MoldovaChișinău
PolandWarsaw
RomaniaBucharest
RussiaMoscow
SlovakiaBratislava
People
About 39 million people live in Ukraine (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 40th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure, with about 0.47 percent of the world's people. On average there are 65 people to each square kilometre. About 70 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 75 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: Ukrainian, Russian, Romany, Polish, Hungarian. A person from Ukraine is called Ukrainian.
Money and economy
The currency is the Ukrainian hryvnia (code UAH, symbol ₴). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 214 billion (2025), which is about US$ 5,866 for each person (2025).
Time
Ukraine spans 2 time zone areas, from UTC+2:00 to UTC+3:00. Clocks are moved for daylight saving time in part of the year.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Kyiv | 2,952,301 |
| Kharkiv | 1,421,125 |
| Odesa | 1,010,537 |
| Dnipro | 968,502 |
| Donetsk | 901,645 |
| Lviv | 717,273 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.