
The following information was taken from the CIA World Factbook.
Population: 45,415,596 (July 2010 est.)
Ethnic Groups: Ukrainian 77.8%, Russian 17.3%, Belarusian 0.6%, Moldovan 0.5%, Crimean Tatar 0.5%, Bulgarian 0.4%, Hungarian 0.3%, Romanian 0.3%, Polish 0.3%, Jewish 0.2%, other 1.8% (2001 census)
Religion: Ukrainian Orthodox - Kyiv Patriarchate 50.4%, Ukrainian Orthodox - Moscow Patriarchate 26.1%, Ukrainian Greek Catholic 8%, Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox 7.2%, Roman Catholic 2.2%, Protestant 2.2%, Jewish 0.6%, other 3.2% (2006 est.)
Language: Ukrainian (official) 67%, Russian 24%, other 9% (includes small Romanian-, Polish-, and Hungarian-speaking minorities)
Government Type: Republic
Capital: Kyiv (Kiev), Pronounced 'KAY-yiv'
Independence: 24 August 1991 (from the Soviet Union)
Executive Branch: Chief of State: President Viktor YANUKOVYCH (since 25 February 2010)
Head of Government: Prime Minister Mykola AZAROV (since 11 March 2010)
Industry: coal, electric power, ferrous and nonferrous metals, machinery and transport equipment, chemicals, food processing.
Agriculture: grain, sugar beets, sunflower seeds, vegetables, beef, milk.
Location: Eastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea, between Poland, Romania, and Moldova in the west and Russia in the east.
Terrain: 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.
YWAM in Ukraine:
Kyiv
Lutsk
Ternopil
Simferopol
To read more information about Ukraine, visit the CIA World Factbook.