Information on Ukraine.

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Facts about Ukraine
With an area of 603 700 km2, Ukraine (official name: Ukrayina) is the second-largest state in Europe. It borders Poland, Belarus and the Russian Federation to the north, Romania, Moldova and the Black Sea to the south. Of its 47.3  million inhabitants, 2.7 million live in the capital, Kiev. Other cities with more than a million inhabitants are Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Odessa. The country is divided into 25 administrative regions. Radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl disaster affected about 7.2 per cent of the country. Today, 6.3 per cent of the country is still contaminated.

The economy and Chernobyl

The state and the economy are still feeling the effects of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. 35 000 km2 of forest alone were contaminated by the accident. This was 40 per cent of the country's forested area. According to information from the Ukrainian government agency Chernobyl Interinform, government spending on alleviating the effects of the accident has been USD 6.5 billion since 1991. Currently, 5-7 per cent of the national budget is consumed by dealing with the consequences. By 2015, Ukrainian experts estimate that the disaster will have cost the economy a total of USD 201 billion (17.1; 18.1; 19.1; 20.1; 4.3; 8.2; 23.1).