The country's official language, since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, is Ukrainian. Of its population, 73 percent are of Ukrainian ethnic origin. It is bordered by the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov, Moldova, and Romania to the south Hungary, Slovakia, and Poland to the west Belarus to the north and Russia to the north and northeast. It is comparable, both in population (about 52 million) and size (233,089 square miles) to France. Ukraine is officially named Ukrayina, which means "borderland." After Russia, it is the second-largest country in Europe in area.
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