- Total area of Ukraine: 603,550 sq km
- Total land area: 579,330 sq km
- Total water area: 24,220 sq km
- Slightly smaller than Texas
- Countries bordering Ukraine: Belarus, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia
- Total distance of all land boundaries: 4,566 km
- Total distance of coastline: 2,782 km
- 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
- 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
- Points of elevation: Lowest: Black Sea (0 m), Highest: Hora Hoveria (2,061 m)