Ukrainians facts for kids

Ukrainians
(українці / ukrayintsi)
Total population
	(39.8–57.5)
Regions with significant populations
	Ukraine 37,541,693
Related ethnic groups
	Other Slavic peoples, pairticularly other East Slavic

Ukrainians are a group of East Slavic people from Ukraine. Ukrainians speak the Ukrainian language. Also widespread is the Russian language (mostly in the south and east).

The Ukrainians - one of the largest European nations totaling about 44 million. The majority of Ukrainians, about 37 million, living in Ukraine. The largest Ukrainian community abroad Ukraine is in Russia. About 3 million Russian citizens consider themselves to be Ukrainians. About 2 million Ukrainians live in North America (890,000 in the United States and 1 million in Canada). A large number of Ukrainians living in countries such as Brazil (880,000), Kazakhstan (500,000), Moldova (450,000), Argentina (305,000), Poland (300,000), Belarus (250,000) and Slovakia (200,000). Also, Ukrainian diaspora exist in Germany, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Romania and Latvia.

Images for kids

"Ethnographical Map of Ukraine" printed just after World War II. Land inhabited by a plurality of ethnic Ukrainians is colored rose.
Portrait of Hutsuls, living in the Carpathian mountains, 1902
Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of Turkey. Painted by Ilya Repin from 1880 to 1891. (Note: two pikes on the left are wrapped in the traditional colors of Ukraine – blue/yellow and red/black)
Traditional village fair in Ukraine, 19th century
A girl in Kharkiv during the Holodomor
Cossack Mamay, one of several national personifications of Ukrainians.
Ukrainians (of Dnieper lowlands) in national attires, drawing of George Narbut, 1907
The historic Saint Sophia's Cathedral, Kiev.
Odessa Opera House
Ukrainian Dance Hopak.