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Ukraine: map and facts
Ukraine is in Eastern Europe. It has about 39 million people (2025), the 40th largest population. It covers 603,550 km², the 45th largest by area. That is about 65 people per km². Its highest point is Hoverla, at 2,061 m. The longest river on its map is the Danube, 2,850 km from source to mouth.
Facts
- Population: 38,980,376 (2025, World Bank)
- Area: 603,550 km² (2024, World Bank)
- Capital: Kyiv
- Highest point: Hoverla, 2,061 m (Wikidata)
- Forest: 17.3% of the land (2024, World Bank)
Rivers
The longest rivers on the map of Ukraine, with the length of each whole river (Wikidata):
- Danube: 2,850 km
- Dnieper: 2,285 km
- Dniester: 1,352 km
- Desna: 1,130 km
- Donets: 1,053 km
- Prut: 953 km
- Southern Bug: 806 km
- Pripyat: 775 km
- Bug: 772 km
- Siret: 740 km
Also on the map: Seym, Horyn, Sozh, Styr, San, Teteriv, Snov, Synyukha, Chilia branch and Western Bug.
Mountains and landscapes
Its highest peaks:
- Hoverla: 2,061 m (its highest point)
- Roman-Kosh: 1,545 m
Mountain ranges: Carpathian Mountains.
Plateaus, plains, deserts and other regions: Pontic Steppe, Central Russian Upland, Crimea, Azov Upland and Dnieper Upland.
Land
Land cover seen from satellites (NASA MODIS, 2024): farmland 64.7%, grassland 7.2%, deciduous broadleaf forest 6.3%, savanna 6%, mixed forest 5.4%, wooded savanna 3.5%.
Landforms, worked out from the height of the land (USGS GMTED2010): plains 87%, hills 5.6%, plateaus 4.3%, mountains 3.1%.
Forests covered 17.3% of its land in 2024, up from 16.2% in 1995 (World Bank).
Minerals and fuels
- World #9 in iron ore among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #10 in titanium among the countries USGS lists (2025)
Neighbours
Ukraine shares land borders with Belarus, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia and Slovakia on this map.
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Sources
India’s boundaries are drawn according to India’s official position, simplified for small-scale maps (data: Natural Earth, India view). Each figure shows its year and source; some are rounded. Data release 2026.2.
- Natural Earth (naturalearthdata.com), public domain. Boundaries follow India's official position (Natural Earth's India point of view). Terms
- GMTED2010 courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey (Danielson and Gesch 2011, USGS Open-File Report 2011-1073). Terms
- Friedl, M., Sulla-Menashe, D. (2022). MODIS/Terra+Aqua Land Cover Type Yearly L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V061. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC. doi:10.5067/MODIS/MCD12Q1.061. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL): UN Population Division, national statistical offices (2025 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Surface area (AG.SRF.TOTL.K2): FAO (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Forest area (% of land area) (AG.LND.FRST.ZS): FAO, FAOSTAT (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- Wikidata (CC0): names, capitals, peak heights and river lengths, checked by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- Credit: U.S. Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 data release (doi:10.5066/P1WKQ63T). Terms
- Landforms worked out by Make Me Smarter from GMTED2010.
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