Ukrainians
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).
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Total population | |||||||
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37 million[1]–57.5[2] | |||||||
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Ukraine 37,541,693[3] | |||||||
Related ethnic groups | |||||||
Other Slavic peoples, pairticularly other East Slavs |
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
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).
"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.
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)
Related pages
References
- ↑ Ukrainians at the Joshua Project
- ↑ The Ukrainian World Congress states that the Ukrainian diaspora makes 20 million: 20mln Ukrainians living abroad Archived 2012-01-05 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Results / General results of the census / National composition of population". All-Ukrainian Census, 2001. 2001-12-05. Archived from the original on 2019-01-07. Retrieved 2007-08-05.
- ↑ "Number and composition population of Ukraine: population census 2001". State Statistics Committee of Ukraine. 5 December 2001. Archived from the original on 6 July 2007. Retrieved 5 August 2007.
- ↑ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-60555472. BBC. Retrieved March 19, 2022
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