Facts and Statistics
Location: Eastern Europe, bordering the Ebony Sea, between Poland, Romania, and Moldova within the western and Russia when you look at the eastern
Capital: Kyiv (Kiev)
Climate: temperate continental; Mediterranean just in the southern Crimean coastline; precipitation disproportionately distributed, highest in west and north, reduced in eastern and southeast; winters vary from cool over the Ebony Sea to cold farther inland; summers are hot throughout the greater area of the nation, hot into the south
Population: 44 million (2019 est. )
Cultural Make-up: Ukrainian 77.8percent, Russian 17.3percent, Belarusian 0.6percent, Moldovan 0.5percent, Crimean Tatar 0.5%, Bulgarian 0.4percent, Hungarian 0.3percent, Romanian 0.3%, Polish 0.3%, Jewish 0.2%, other 1.8percent
Religions: Ukrainian Orthodox – Kyiv Patriarchate 19%, Orthodox (no specific jurisdiction) 16%, Ukrainian Orthodox – Moscow Patriarchate 9%, Ukrainian Greek Catholic 6%, Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox 1.7%, Protestant, Jewish, none 38%