Ukraine is located in the Eastern Europe, it has common borders with seven countries. Both longer, are those who separate it in the east and in the northeast of Russia, and in the north of Byelorussia. On the west and in the southwest bordering countries are Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Rumania, and Moldavia. The country is 1316 km from east to west and 893 km from north to south, for a surface of 603.700 km2. It counts 46,9 Mb of inhabitants.

The Ukrainian mountains, on the west, are made up of the carpathian bow whose highest point is the mount Hoverla with 2061metres. The Carpathian Mountains, covered with full of game forests and with pastures, remind the French Vosges or Jura.

Crimea is a 360 km peninsula from west to east and of 250 km from north to south. The main mountainous chain on the south coast, reaches 1545 metres and dominates the sheltered and sunny coast of Yalta. The inside of Crimea consists of plateau which heights varie from 500 to 600 metres and of semi dry meadows and of steppes.

The rest of the country joins for the main part in a great plain fertilized by the Dnieper and an important network of rivers. It extends over approximately 1000 km from west to east and over 600 km from north to south.

The very vast river system, includes the Dnieper and its rapids which cuts the country in two from the North to the Black Sea, the Dniester, the Buh and the southern Buh ( Pivdennyy Buh) on the west and the Donets in the east. The Danube marks the border of Ukraine on the southwest extremity of Rumania.The main cities are: Kiev, the capital with 3 Mb of inhabitants, Kharkiv 1,5 Mb, Dniepropetrovsk 1,2 Mb, Odessa 1,2 Mb, Donetsk 1,1 Mb, Lviv 0,8 Mb.