ukraine
Noun
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A republic in southeastern Europe;
Formerly a European soviet;
The center of the original Russian state which came into existence in the ninth century (synset 109037349)member holonym: ukranian - a native or inhabitant of the Ukrainebelongs to: cis, commonwealth of independent states - an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991has:- crimea - a Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov
- capital of the ukraine, kiev, kyyiv - capital and largest city of the Ukraine; a major manufacturing and transportation center
- donetsk, donetske, stalino - an industrial city in the Donets Basin
- donbas, donbass, donets basin - an industrial region in the Ukraine
- chernobyl - a city in north central Ukraine; site of a major disaster at a nuclear power plant (26 April 1986)
- kharkiv, kharkov - a city in northeastern Ukraine; former capital of the Ukraine
- odesa, odessa - a port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea
- carpathian mountains, carpathians - a mountain range in central Europe that extends from Slovakia and southern Poland southeastward through western Ukraine to northeastern Romania; a popular resort area
- danau, danube, danube river - the 2nd longest European river (after the Volga); flows from southwestern Germany to the Black Sea
- dnieper, dnieper river - a river that rises in Russia near Smolensk and flowing south through Belarus and Ukraine to empty into the Black Sea
is a part of: europe - the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Islessame as: ukrayina
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