ukraine

Noun
  1. 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)
    is an instance of: country, land, state - the territory occupied by a nation
    member holonym: ukranian - a native or inhabitant of the Ukraine
    belongs 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 1991
    has:
    • 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 Isles
    same as: ukrayina

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