Ukrainians

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

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).

In 2001, there were 37 million Ukrainians in Ukraine. (That year, the census counted 37,541,693.^[4])

Ukrainians and non-Ukrainians - around 3 million - left Ukraine during 2022's Ukrainian refugee crisis.^[5]

The Ukrainians - one of the largest European nations totaling about 44 million.

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). Many Ukrainians live 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.

The connection with the Zaporozhian Cossacks especially, is emphasized in the Ukrainian national anthem, "We are, brothers, of Cossack kin".

Ukrainians Media

Map of the Ukrainian people around the world. (The map might include people with Ukrainian ancestry or citizenship)* Ukraine*
Vladimir Vernadsky, a Soviet mineralogist and geochemist who is considered one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and radiogeology. He is also known as the founder of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (now National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine).
Settlement of Ukrainians around the world in 1920
"Ethnographical Map of Ukraine" printed just after World War II. Land inhabited by a plurality of ethnic Ukrainians is colored rose (not to be confused with the color given to Kalmyks, also rose).
Population of ethnic Ukrainians in Ukraine by oblast (2001)
Neolithic migrations c. 5000–4000 BC. The people of the Proto-Indo-European Sredny Stog culture were the result of a genetic admixture between the Eastern European hunter-gatherers and Caucasus hunter-gatherers.
Principal Component Analysis of European populations from the Genome Ukraine Project
Structure plot of European populations from the Genome Ukraine Project
Portrait of Hutsuls, living in the Carpathian mountains, 1902
Kostiantyn Ostrozkyi (prince, upper left), Kyrylo Rozumovskyi (hetman, upper right), Ivan Mazepa (hetman, lower left), Ivan Paskevych (serene prince, field marshal, lower right)