Ucrania

Más allá de la capital, las principales ciudades son Kharkiv, Dnipro, Odessa — cada una un centro de cultura regional, economía e historia. Kyiv's Pechersk Lavra — the Monastery of the Caves — was founded in 1051 on limestone bluffs above the Dnipro River and contains a network of underground tunnels where the mummified remains of medieval monks are displayed by candlelight; the monastery complex is a World Heritage Site and the spiritual origin point of Eastern Orthodox Christianity as practised across Russia and the Slavic world.

El idioma oficial es ucraniano, que refleja el patrimonio cultural del país y lo conecta con una amplia comunidad internacional. Internacionalmente, Ucrania se contacta mediante el código +380. Ukrainians maintain a tradition of pysanky — Easter eggs decorated using a wax-resist method with geometric and symbolic patterns specific to each region — a practice pre-dating Christianity that was nearly suppressed in the Soviet period and has undergone a pronounced revival as an act of cultural assertion since 2014.

Ucrania comparte sus fronteras con Bielorrusia, Rumanía, Polonia, Eslovaquia, Moldavia, Rusia, Hungría. El tráfico rodado circula por la derecha, en consonancia con la convención de

La vida económica y cotidiana se rige por la zona horaria de UTC+02:00, alineando el país con sus vecinos regionales.

Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko held all four major heavyweight boxing world titles simultaneously between 2004 and 2015, an era of dominance so complete that the heavyweight division was effectively a Ukrainian property — and both brothers later became mayors of Kyiv, translating boxing fame into civic authority.

The Carpathian Mountains in western Ukraine contain the largest primeval beech forest in Europe, a UNESCO World Heritage Site shared with Slovakia and Romania, and the Dnipro River — which bisects the country north to south — has shaped Ukrainian settlement, agriculture and identity as fundamentally as the Nile shaped Egypt.