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Spotlight SUN · 17 MAY 2026

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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