Republic of Crimea Facts for Kids

Quick facts for kids Republic of Crimea Респу́блика Крым Республіка Крим Къырым Джумхуриети Qırım Cumhuriyeti

Status	Unrecognized by any state
Capital	Simferopol
Spoken languages	Russian Ukrainian Crimean Tatar
Government	Republic

• Prime Minister of Crimea	Sergey Aksyonov

Legislature	State Council
Independence from Ukraine

• Proclaimed	March 11, 2014
• Established	Depends on the outcome of the referendum
• Recognized	None

Area
• Total	27,000 km² (10,000 sq mi)
Currency	Ukrainian hryvnia Russian ruble
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

The Republic of Crimea (Crimean Tatar: Къырым Джумхуриети, Qırım Cumhuriyeti) is a Russian federal subject. It is the Crimean peninsula in the Black Sea. It is located southeast of Ukraine and west of southern Russia. Its capital is Simferopol. The parliament of Crimea declared independence in 2014 after the victory of Euromaidan and joined Russia.

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Prime Minister of the Crimean Regional Government Solomon Krym, 1919
The "Big Three" at the Yalta Conference in Crimea: Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin.
Dmitry Medvedev and Crimean PM Aksyonov meeting with students in Simferopol, 31 March 2014
Simferopol, Crimea, 9 May 2019, the celebration of the Victory Day
Interior of the Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Yalta.
Commercial Medical Clinic in the Republic of Crimea
Tourists in Crimea in June 2015
The 70 m radio telescope of the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory is a part of the Soviet Deep Space Network
Lokomotiv Republican Sports Complex in Simferopol.
Vladimir Putin meeting with representatives of the Crimean Tatars, 16 May 2014
Life expectancy in the Republic of Crimea
Life expectancy with calculated differences
Life expectancy in the Republic of Crimea in comparison with Crimea on average and neighboring regions of the country
Life expectancy in the Republic of Crimea in comparison with Crimea on average (in detail)

Republic of Crimea facts for kids

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