Geography

Ukraine is bordered to the north of Belarus, in the north and east of the Russian Federation, on the west by Poland, the Slovak Republic and Hungary and in the southwest to Romania and Moldova. The north is very heavily forested, in other parts of the country outweigh the forest-steppe (beech and oak) and treeless steppe. The most important is the Dnipro River, which flows into the Black Sea. The until 1956 belonging to Russia in the Crimean peninsula south of the country has become the bone of contention between Ukraine and Russia has become. Since 1992 she is an autonomous republic.