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Ukraine
Ukraine is the second-largest country wholly in Europe, with vast fertile black-earth plains, the Carpathian mountains in the west, and a Black Sea coastline that has long made it geopolitically pivotal.
- Capital
- Kyiv
- Population
- 37M
- Currency
- Ukrainian Hryvnia (UAH)
- Continent
- Europe
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- Palmyra Atoll
- Washington, D.C.
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