Map of Ukraine

Ukraine is located in Europe. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 49.0° N, 32.0° E. It shares land borders with 7 countries — Belarus, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia and Slovakia — and also has its own coastline. Within Europe, a continent of 45 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, Ukraine is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Ukraine shares land frontiers with the following 7 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Ukraine covers about 603,550 km² (233,032 sq mi). That makes it the 44th-largest country in the world by area and the 2nd-largest in Europe, larger by area than 43 of the continent’s 45 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 32,862,000, the 47th-largest in the world and the 8th-largest in Europe, accounting for about 4.4% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Ukraine has an average population density of about 54 people per km². Among the 45 countries of Europe it stands 8th by population and 2nd by area.

The seat of government is Kyiv, and the official currency is the Ukrainian hryvnia (UAH, ₴), and the main official language is Ukrainian. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+02:00.

Ukraine carries the ISO country codes UA and UKR, dials on the international calling code +380 and uses the .ua, .укр internet domain.

Ukraine shares its land borders with 7 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Russia (capital Moscow, about 146,028,325 people), Poland (capital Warsaw, about 37,392,000 people), Romania (capital Bucharest, about 19,036,031 people), Hungary (capital Budapest, about 9,539,502 people), Belarus (capital Minsk, about 9,109,280 people), Slovakia (capital Bratislava, about 5,413,813 people) and Moldova (capital Chișinău, about 2,749,076 people).

By area, Ukraine is larger than 6 of these neighbours and smaller than 1 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 49.0° N, 32.0° E and opens at zoom level 5, framing Ukraine within Europe. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Kyiv. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Ukraine lies about 5,439 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Ukraine keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+02:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +02:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Ukrainian hryvnia (UAH, ₴).

The official language is Ukrainian, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +380 and websites commonly use the .ua, .укр internet domain.

In short, Ukraine is a coastal country in Europe, sharing land borders with 7 countries. Its capital is Kyiv. Ukraine has a population of about 32,862,000 and covers around 603,550 km² (233,032 sq mi), ranking it 47th in the world by population and 44th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Ukraine.

The flag of Ukraine is composed of two equal horizontal bands of blue and yellow.

The flag of Ukraine is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.