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| Location | Eastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea, between Poland, Romania, and Moldova in the west and Russia in the east |
| Geographic coordinates | 49 00 N, 32 00 E |
| Map references | asia |
| Area |
total: 603,700 sq km water: 0 sq km land: 603,700 sq km |
| Area comparative | slightly smaller than Texas |
| Land boundaries |
total: 4,663 km border countries: belarus 891 km, hungary 103 km, moldova 939 km, poland 526 km, romania (south) 169 km, romania (west) 362 km, russia 1,576 km, slovakia 97 km |
| Coastline | 2,782 km |
| Maritime claims |
territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200-m or to the depth of exploitation |
| Climate | 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 |
| 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 |
| Elevation extremes |
lowest point: black sea 0 m highest point: hora hoverla 2,061 m |
| Natural resources | iron ore, coal, manganese, natural gas, oil, salt, sulfur, graphite, titanium, magnesium, kaolin, nickel, mercury, timber, arable land |
| Land use |
arable land: 56.21% permanent crops: 1.61% other: 42.18% (2001) |
| Irrigated land | 24,540 sq km (1998 est.) |
| Natural hazards | NA |
| Environment - current issues | inadequate supplies of potable water; air and water pollution; deforestation; radiation contamination in the northeast from 1986 accident at Chornobyl' Nuclear Power Plant |
| Environment - international agreements | party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Sulfur 85, Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands signed, but not ratified: air pollution-persistent organic pollutants, air pollution-sulfur 94, air pollution-volatile organic compounds |
| Geography note | strategic position at the crossroads between Europe and Asia; second-largest country in Europe |
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