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Ukraine
Capital: Kyiv
- Water covers about 3.8% of Ukraine's total area of 603,628 square kilometres, which makes it the second-largest country in Europe by area, after Russia.
- Stone tools from Korolevo in western Ukraine are about 1.4 million years old, the earliest securely dated human presence in Europe.
- Around 1017, the chronicler Thietmar of Merseburg reported that Kyiv had more than 400 churches and 8 markets.