Ukraine — Europe's largest country (excluding European Russia), 7 UNESCO sites.
- Ukraine is Europe's largest country (603,628 km², excluding Russia). Larger than France. Borders 7 countries.
- Chernobyl — 30 km exclusion zone After 1986 disaster 350,000 people evacuated. Today a tourist attraction (60,000 visitors annually before war).
- Kyiv Pechersk Lavra — UNESCO 1011 AD. Hundreds of churches, underground tombs, mummies of Orthodox saints.
- Orange Revolution (2004) + Maidan (2014) 2× in 21st c. Ukrainians defended democracy in the streets.
- Lviv — Ukraine's most beautiful city Old Town UNESCO. Polish, Austrian, Ukrainian, Jewish, Armenian influences. 60% of architecture from 19th c.
- Deepest metro in the world — Arsenalna in Kyiv (105.5 m underground). Bomb shelter in Soviet times.
- Ukraine was the granary of USSR and Europe 25% of global grain production goes through Ukraine. Wheat, corn, sunflower.
- Little known: chemical engineering was Ukrainian First electric starter belt, first electric cars (1899 Lviv), radioactivity research.
- Ukrainian Carpathians the last truly wild areas of Europe. Bears, wolves, bison. UNESCO Bukovina (wooden Orthodox churches).
- Saint Sophia of Kyiv — 11th c. older than Polish churches. Byzantine architecture, original frescoes from 1000 years ago. UNESCO 1990.
Sources: State Statistics Service Ukraine, Visit Ukraine, UNESCO World Heritage.