Area study: Ukraine. Part II - Geography
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AREA STUDY: UKRAINE II. GEOGRAPHY
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Operational environment: • Physical, administrative, and ethnic/language boundaries • Location, altitudes, natural boundaries • Chernobyl exclusion zone
Influences of the environment: • Natural conditions, vegetation, weather • Major cities • Infrastructure • Industry
II. GEOGRAPHY
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PHYSICAL BOUNDARIES
Location: Eastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea, between Poland, Romania, and Moldova in the west and Russia in the east
Geographic coordinates: 49 00 N, 32 00 E
Land boundaries: Total: 5,618 km • Belarus 1,111 km • Hungary 128 km • Moldova 1,202 km • Poland 535 km • Romania 601 km • Russia 1,944 km • Slovakia 97 km
Coastline: 2,782 km
Maritime claims: • territorial sea: 12 nm • exclusive economic
zone: 200 nm • continental shelf:
200 m or to the depth of exploitation
Area: total: 603,550 sq km
land: 579,330 sq km water: 24,220 sq km
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TERRAIN
Elevation extremes: • lowest point: Black Sea 0 m • highest point: Hora Hoverla 2,061m
Terrain: most of Ukraine consists of fertile plains (steppes) and plateaus, mountains being found only in the west (the Carpathians), and in the Crimean Peninsula in the extreme south
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CHERNOBYL EXCLUSION ZONE
Kiev
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CHERNOBYL EXCLUSION ZONE
The intensity of soil radiation is shown in colour from green (0.01), through yellow to red (34.69 µSv/hour).
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CHERNOBYL CESIUM-137
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MACROREGIONS
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ADMINISTRATIVE BOUNDARIES
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ETHNIC MAP
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ETHNO-LINGUISTIC BOUNDARIES
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DIALECTS
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RUSSIA AS A NATIVE TONGUE
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NATURAL RESOURCES
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NATURAL RESOURCES
Irrigated land: 21,750 sq km (2010) Total renewable water resources: 139.6 cu km (2011) Freshwater withdrawal (domestic/industrial/agricultural): • total: 19.24 cu km/yr
(24%/69%/7%) • per capita: 415.7 cu m/yr
(2010)
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INDUSTRIAL POLUTION
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PHYSICAL MAP & POPULATION
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CLIMATE & NATURAL RESOURCES
Climate: temperate continental; Mediterranean only on the southern Crimean coast; precipitation disproportionately distributed, highest in west and north, lesser in east and southeast; winters vary from cool along the Black Sea to cold farther inland; summers are warm across the greater part of the country, hot in the south Natural resources: iron ore, coal, manganese, natural gas, oil, salt, sulfur, graphite, titanium, magnesium, kaolin, nickel, mercury, timber, arable land
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CLIMATE & AIR TEMPERATURE
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AIR TEMPERATURE
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INDUSTRY
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HYDROCARBON FIELDS