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 Ukraine 
 Main prefix
 UR 
 Callsigns series
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 +2 h 
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 Europe 
 ITU zone
 29 
 CQ zone
 16 
 
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Two equal horizontal bands of azure (top) and golden yellow represent grainfields under a blue sky.
 
          Ukraine          
 
 Ukraine 
 Capital: 
Kiev (Kyyiv)
 Administrative
 divisions: 
24 oblasti (singular - oblast'), 1 autonomous republic* (avtomnaya respublika), and 2 municipalities (mista, singular - misto) with oblast' status**: Cherkas'ka (Cherkasy), Chernihivs'ka (Chernihiv), Chernivets'ka (Chernivtsi), Dnipropetrovs'ka (Dnipropetrovs'k), Donets'ka (Donets'k), Ivano-Frankivs'ka (Ivano-Frankivs'k), Kharkivs'ka (Kharkiv), Khersons'ka (Kherson), Khmel'nyts'ka (Khmel'nyts'kyy), Kirovohrads'ka (Kirovohrad), Kyyiv**, Kyyivs'ka (Kiev), Luhans'ka (Luhans'k), L'vivs'ka (L'viv), Mykolayivs'ka (Mykolayiv), Odes'ka (Odesa), Poltavs'ka (Poltava), Avtonomna Respublika Krym* (Simferopol'), Rivnens'ka (Rivne), Sevastopol'**, Sums'ka (Sumy), Ternopil's'ka (Ternopil'), Vinnyts'ka (Vinnytsya), Volyns'ka (Luts'k), Zakarpats'ka (Uzhhorod), Zaporiz'ka (Zaporizhzhya), and Zhytomyrs'ka (Zhytomyr).
Oblasts have the administrative center name following in parentheses, when using a place name with an adjectival ending 's'ka' or 'z'ka'; the word Oblast' should be added to the place name.

note: the United States does not recognize Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the municipality of Sevastopol, nor their redesignation as the Republic of Crimea and the Federal City of Sevastopol
 Population: 
48,396,470 (July 2002 est.)
 Languages: 
Ukrainian, Russian, Romanian, Polish, Hungarian
 Geographic
 coordinates: 
49° 00' N, 32° 00' E
 Area total: 
603,700 sq. km
 Land area: 
603,700 sq. km
 Water area: 
0 sq. km
 Total land
 boundaries: 
4,663 km
 Borders
 with neighbor
 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
 Elevation
 extremes: 
Black Sea 0 m - Hora Hoverla 2,061 m
 Internet
 country code: 
.ua
 Currency: 
hryvnia (UAH)
 Name -
 conventional
 long form: 
none
 Name -
 conventional
 short form: 
Ukraine
 Name - local
 long form: 
none
 Name - local
 short form: 
Ukrayina
 Former name: 
Ukrainian National Republic, Ukrainian State, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
 Independence: 
24 August 1991 (from Soviet Union)
 Constitution: 
adopted 28 June 1996
 Government
 type: 
republic
 National
 holiday: 
Independence Day, 24 August (1991)
 
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