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Ukraine

Eastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea, between Poland, Belarus, Romania, and Moldova in the west and Russia in the east

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Civil aircraft registration country code prefix

UR

Airports

152 (2025)

Heliports

44 (2025)

Railways

Total

21,733 km (2014)

Standard gauge

49 km (2014) 1.435-m gauge (49 km electrified)

Broad gauge

21,684 km (2014) 1.524-m gauge (9,250 km electrified)

Merchant marine

Total

410 (2023)

By type

container ship 1, general cargo 83, oil tanker 14, other 312

Ports

Total ports

26 (2024)

Large

3

Medium

0

Small

8

Very small

15

Ports with oil terminals

8

Key ports

Berdyansk, Dnipro-Buzkyy, Feodosiya, Illichivsk, Kerch, Kherson, Mariupol, Mykolayiv, Odesa, Sevastopol, Yuzhnyy