Ukraine

Ukraine is one of the largest countries of eastern Europe. Ukraine occupies an area of 603,700 square kilometres. Its territory stretches for 893 kilometres from north to south and for 1,316 kilometres from east to west. It has state borders with Russia, Belarus, Moldova, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania. In the south it is washed by the waters of the Black and the Azov Seas. The major part of Ukraine is flat, and only 5% of it is mountainous. The two mountainous areas in Ukraine are the Carpathians and the Crimean Mountains. The geographical position of Ukraine is very favourable, because the country lies on the crossroads of the ways from Asia to Europe. Ukraine has deposits of iron, manganese, coal, natural gas, oil, and other mineral resources. The main branches of industry are: coal and iron ore mining, iron and steel engineering, machine construction and ship building shipbuilding.
Besines, Ukraine has always been an agrarian country. Traditionaly Traditional crop-growing and cattle-breeding are being further developed.