Ukraine

• temperate continental;
• Mediterranean only on the southern Crimean coast;
• precipitation disproportionately distributed, highest in west and north, lesser in east and southeast;
• 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

total:

37.53 cu km/yr (12%/35%/52%)

per capita:

807 cu m/yr (2000)

• inadequate supplies of potable water;
• air and water pollution;
• deforestation;
• radiation contamination in the northeast from 1986 accident at Chornobyl' Nuclear Power Plant

noun:

Ukrainian(s)

adjective:

Ukrainian

at birth:

1.06 male(s)/female

under 15 years:

1.06 male(s)/female

15-64 years:

0.92 male(s)/female

65 years and over:

0.49 male(s)/female

total population:

0.85 male(s)/female (2011 est.)

conventional long form:

none

conventional short form:

Ukraine

local long form:

none

local short form:

Ukrayina

former:

Ukrainian National Republic, Ukrainian State, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

name:

Kyiv (Kiev)

note: pronounced KAY-yiv

geographic coordinates:

50 26 N, 30 31 E

time difference:

UTC+2 (7 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)

daylight saving time:

+1hr, begins last Sunday in March; ends last Sunday in October

• 24 provinces (oblasti, singular - oblast'), 1 autonomous republic* (avtonomna respublika), and 2 municipalities (mista, singular - misto) with oblast status**;
• Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Chernivtsi, Crimea or Avtonomna Respublika Krym* (Simferopol'), Dnipropetrovs'k, Donets'k, Ivano-Frankivs'k, Kharkiv, Kherson, Khmel'nyts'kyy, Kirovohrad, Kyiv**, Kyiv, Luhans'k, L'viv, Mykolayiv, Odesa, Poltava, Rivne, Sevastopol'**, Sumy, Ternopil', Vinnytsya, Volyn' (Luts'k), Zakarpattya (Uzhhorod), Zaporizhzhya, Zhytomyr

note: administrative divisions have the same names as their administrative centers (exceptions have the administrative center name following in parentheses)

• Batkivshchyna [Yuliya TYMOSHENKO];
• Communist Party of Ukraine or CPU [Petro SYMONENKO];
• European Party of Ukraine [Mykola KATERYNCHUK];
• Front of Change [Arseniy YATSENYUK];
• Our Ukraine [Valentyn NALYVAICHENKO];
• Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs [Anatoliy KINAKH];
• Party of Regions [Mykola AZAROV, chairman];
• Party of the Defenders of the Fatherland [Yuriy KARMAZIN];
• People's Movement of Ukraine (Rukh) [Borys TARASYUK];
• People's Party [Volodymyr LYTVYN];
• Peoples' Self-Defense Party [Oleh NOVIKOV];
• Progressive Socialist Party [Natalya VITRENKO];
• Radical Party [Oleh LYASHKO];
• Reforms and Order Party [Viktor PYNZENYK];
• Republican Party Sobor [Anatoliy MATVIYENKO];
• Social Democratic Party [Yevhen KORNICHUK];
• Social Democratic Party (United) or SDPU(o) [Yuriy ZAHORODNIY];
• Socialist Party of Ukraine or SPU [Oleksandr MOROZ];
• Svoboda [Oleh TYAHNYBOK];
• Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reforms or UDAR [Vitaliy KLYCHKO];
• Ukrainian People's Party [Yuriy KOSTENKO];
• Union [Lev MIRIMSKY];
• United Center [Viktor BALOHA];
• Viche [Inna BOHOSLOVSKA]

Australia Group, BSEC, CBSS (observer), CD, CE, CEI, CICA (observer), CIS (participating member, has not signed the 1993 CIS charter although it participates in meetings), EAEC (observer), EAPC, EBRD, FAO, GCTU, GUAM, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICRM, IDA, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), LAIA (observer), MIGA, MONUSCO, NAM (observer), NSG, OAS (observer), OIF (observer), OPCW, OSCE, PCA, PFP, SELEC (observer), UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNMIL, UNMISS, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC

chief of mission:

Ambassador Oleksandr MOTSYK

chancery:

3350 M Street NW, Washington, DC 20007

telephone:

[1] (202) 333-0606

FAX:

[1] (202) 333-0817

consulate(s) general:

Chicago, New York, San Francisco

chief of mission:

Ambassador John F. TEFFT

embassy:

4 Igor Sikorsky Street, 04112 Kyiv

mailing address:

5850 Kyiv Place, Washington, DC 20521-5850

telephone:

[380] (44) 521-5000

FAX:

[380] (44) 521-5155

name:

"Sche ne vmerla Ukraina" (Ukraine Has Not Yet Perished)

lyrics/music:

Paul CHUBYNSKYI/Mikhail VERBYTSKYI

note: music adopted 1991, lyrics adopted 2003; the song was first performed in 1864 at the Ukraine Theatre in Lviv; the lyrics, originally written in 1862, were revised in 2003

agriculture:

15.8%

industry:

18.5%

services:

65.7% (2008)

lowest 10%:

4.2%

highest 10%:

22% (2009 est.)

general assessment:

Ukraine's telecommunication development plan emphasizes improving domestic trunk lines, international connections, and the mobile-cellular system

domestic:

• at independence in December 1991, Ukraine inherited a telephone system that was antiquated, inefficient, and in disrepair;
• more than 3.5 million applications for telephones could not be satisfied;
• telephone density is rising and the domestic trunk system is being improved;
• about one-third of Ukraine's networks are digital and a majority of regional centers now have digital switching stations;
• improvements in local networks and local exchanges continue to lag;
• the mobile-cellular telephone system's expansion has slowed, largely due to saturation of the market which has reached 125 mobile phones per 100 people

international:

• country code - 380;
• 2 new domestic trunk lines are a part of the fiber-optic Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) system and 3 Ukrainian links have been installed in the fiber-optic Trans-European Lines (TEL) project that connects 18 countries;
• additional international service is provided by the Italy-Turkey-Ukraine-Russia (ITUR) fiber-optic submarine cable and by an unknown number of earth stations in the Intelsat, Inmarsat, and Intersputnik satellite systems

• Ukraine's state-controlled nationwide TV broadcast channel (UT1) and a number of privately-owned TV networks provide basic TV coverage;
• multi-channel cable and satellite TV services are available;
• Russian television broadcasts have a small audience nationwide, but larger audiences in the eastern and southern regions;
• Ukraine's radio broadcast market, a mix of independent and state-owned networks, is comprised of some 300 stations (2007)

total:

21,684 km

country comparison to the world: 12

broad gauge:

21,684 km 1.524-m gauge (9,854 km electrified) (2009)

total:

169,496 km

country comparison to the world: 29

paved:

165,844 km (includes 15 km of expressways)

unpaved:

3,652 km (2009)

males age 16-49:

10,984,394

females age 16-49:

11.26 million (2010 est.)

males age 16-49:

6,893,551

females age 16-49:

8,792,504 (2010 est.)

male:

246,397

female:

234,916 (2010 est.)

• 1997 boundary delimitation treaty with Belarus remains unratified due to unresolved financial claims, stalling demarcation and reducing border security;
• delimitation of land boundary with Russia is complete with preparations for demarcation underway;
• the dispute over the boundary between Russia and Ukraine through the Kerch Strait and Sea of Azov remains unresolved despite a December 2003 framework agreement and ongoing expert-level discussions;
• Moldova and Ukraine operate joint customs posts to monitor transit of people and commodities through Moldova's break-away Transnistria Region, which remains under the auspices of an Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe-mandated peacekeeping mission comprised of Moldovan, Transnistrian, Russian, and Ukrainian troops;
• the ICJ ruled largely in favor of Romania in its dispute submitted in 2004 over Ukrainian-administered Zmiyinyy/Serpilor (Snake) Island and Black Sea maritime boundary delimitation;
• Romania opposes Ukraine's reopening of a navigation canal from the Danube border through Ukraine to the Black Sea

• limited cultivation of cannabis and opium poppy, mostly for CIS consumption;
• some synthetic drug production for export to the West;
• limited government eradication program;
• used as transshipment point for opiates and other illicit drugs from Africa, Latin America, and Turkey to Europe and Russia;
• Ukraine has improved anti-money-laundering controls, resulting in its removal from the Financial Action Task Force's (FATF's) Noncooperative Countries and Territories List in February 2004;
• Ukraine's anti-money-laundering regime continues to be monitored by FATF