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Ukraine Country Quiz

Can you guess these facts about the country of Ukraine?
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First submittedAugust 29, 2014
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Capital city
Kyiv
Second most-populous city (starts with K)
Kharkiv
Largest sea bordering Ukraine
Black Sea
Most-populous city on the above
Odessa
Mountain range passing through southwest Ukraine
Carpathian
Longest river by length within Ukraine
Dnieper
Country that Ukraine was part of until 1991
Soviet Union
Peninsula seized by Russia in 2014
Crimea
Alphabet used in Ukraine
Cyrillic
Term for a Ukrainian province
Oblast
Ukrainian beet soup
Borscht
Ethnic group of horsemen who once protected Russia's borders
Cossack
Site of a 1986 nuclear accident
Chernobyl
Dominant branch of Christianity
Eastern Orthodox
Millions died from this 1932 and 1933
The Holodomor (famine)
Smallest (and poorest) country which borders Ukraine
Moldova
Larger ethnic group which Ukrainians are part of
Slavs
Protests that happened in 2004 after vote-rigging and the poisoning of a Presidential candidate
Orange Revolution
In 2014, Russian separatists shot down a plane from this airline
Malaysia Airlines
Former profession of current President Volodymyr Zelensky
Comedian
In 1992, Ukraine gave up its massive stockpile of these
Nuclear Weapons
Sport in which brothers Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko were champions
Boxing
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89 Comments
drayen
+2
Level 72
Sep 4, 2014
Any chance of accepting oblest for oblast?
swisscheesy
+56
Level 74
Sep 4, 2014
no. there is no such thing a oblest.
kalbahamut
+32
Level 79
Sep 4, 2014
good thing you got this up while there is still a Ukraine.
TheCrusher
+24
Level 70
Aug 13, 2020
Still here 6 years later!
eppek
+7
Level 69
Dec 22, 2020
We'll see
Reonvn
+2
Level 47
Oct 18, 2025
Still here, 11 years later
AquaJaguars23
+4
Level 61
Apr 15, 2021
probably for not much longer oof
poltergeist
+4
Level 65
Jan 27, 2022
tell me about it
Findlay
+36
Level 80
Mar 9, 2022
Still standing, despite Putin's best efforts.
Philippelebel
+4
Level 79
Nov 18, 2024
Ukraine is still resisting!

Even though "North Korean troops are fighting Ukraine around Kursk" was not on my bingo card for 2024...

CalcioComo1907
+1
Level 46
Mar 1, 2025
Oh good korean army (10000) front in russia(Kursk).

Putin... Text in Poland : Jesteśmy z tobą Ukraina nie będzie ruski nas atakował. Putin is attention Europe to attack Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Moldova, Lithuania. Kraje bałtyckie jesteśmy z wami a Mołdawio strzeżcie się przed propagandą rosyjską :)

bantqq1
+2
Level 48
May 12, 2025
Day 1173 of a war
JWatson24
+29
Level 71
Feb 22, 2022
That comment is more relevant than ever 8 years later...
Carter2
+15
Level 59
Feb 24, 2022
It's even more relevant right now
styliani
+8
Level 49
Feb 28, 2022
it's even more relevant right now.
Cog
+5
Level 77
Apr 5, 2022
And now too
kalbahamut
+14
Level 79
Feb 24, 2022
sometimes it sucks being right all the time...
JustDmitri
+7
Level 43
Feb 25, 2022
Fellas from the past, we're soon not going to have a Ukraine
rillth
+12
Level 40
Mar 4, 2023
Ukraine is still there🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
Nekroix
+19
Level 50
Mar 7, 2022
They are resisting 🇺🇦💙💛
Kontio100
+9
Level 55
Sep 4, 2014
Map is wrong because Crimea is not part of Ukraine anymore - its fact - no matter if its wrong or right.
kalbahamut
+4
Level 79
Sep 4, 2014
Probably true, at least for the time being, though I'm taking a wait-and-see approach before I update my oldest cities quiz, which is now inaccurate for the same reason.
cpgatbyu
+23
Level 88
May 17, 2020
Were you also in a hurry for ISIL lands to be recognized?
KanzazKyote
+12
Level 92
May 17, 2020
That's the most ludicrous thing. While Russia's foolhardy, overly aggressive attempt left much to be desired, the Crimeans do not show any indication of ever wanting to be part of Ukraine, and appear to have joined Russia willingly. Not to mention they have never been part of any form of a Ukrainian state except for the brief post-Russian Revolution period in which Ukraine also controlled vast swathes of the Caucasus, which no one is in a hurry to "return" to them today. To compare it to the rats in ISIS is insane.
kalbahamut
+21
Level 79
Aug 7, 2020
There were people in Iraq and Syria who also wanted to live in the Islamic State. It's a pretty apt comparison. What Russia did was an illegal, cynical, self-serving land grab that violated Ukraine's sovereignty and has resulted in thousands of deaths. They didn't and never have cared about protecting Russian-speaking people and are no heroes.
otissaroke
+2
Level 31
Sep 4, 2014
I thought Donetsk was the second biggest city in Ukraine.
rawe
+2
Level 70
Sep 29, 2014
Yeah, me too.
PacoGee
+2
Level 43
Jan 20, 2015
Odessa is pretty large :)
kalbahamut
+2
Level 79
Aug 5, 2020
I thought it was Odessa. I think if Kharkiv is larger it only surpassed it recently. Could be wrong.
NoutButBuckets
+2
Level 55
Aug 6, 2020
Odessa was larger when the Russian Empire was around, but Kharkiv is and has been larger than Odessa since when the USSR existed. Ukraine's population as a whole has been declining steadily since the collapse of the USSR.
sillie
+5
Level 75
Sep 4, 2014
How about you accept "hunger" for "famine"? You die of hunger and a shortage of food when people start dying of hunger is famine.
Rozzi
+5
Level 61
Sep 6, 2014
seconded!
migjacker
+4
Level 89
Jan 29, 2016
thirded!
AlexThirkell
+7
Level 74
Dec 5, 2020
Hmm. You don't die of hunger, you die of starvation. hunger-famine is a bit like wind-tornado: famine is a disaster made up of extreme hunger, but hunger on its own is quite normal.
melilac
+2
Level 21
May 9, 2015
2 minutes left, not bad
dogla305
+3
Level 61
Mar 22, 2018
I think I deserve 5 points just for spelling
zaba2048
+4
Level 71
May 17, 2020
Could you allow 'nuclear missiles'? Seems a bit odd that it's not allowed while 'nukes' is.
Quizmaster
+6
Level ∞
May 17, 2020
We added that to the list of 10 or so things that were already accepted. Thank you for the suggestion.
Vincentdc
+2
Level 83
May 18, 2020
The Danube is about 600 km longer than the Dnieper
Quizmaster
+4
Level ∞
May 18, 2020
Added a caveat to the question.
TheLastFish
+5
Level 71
May 18, 2020
Although those separatists in the Donbass are indeed most likely Ukrainian citizens with Russian ethnicity, I think the more appropriate/neutral term is "pro-Russian separatists". ("Russian separatists" would make to obvious that these lands are indeed "Russian lands"...;-) )
joeythelemur
+2
Level 80
May 27, 2020
Ukraine is weak. :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzLtF_PxbYw

JackintheBox
+5
Level 82
Jul 10, 2020
Really?
Jacktheguy
+7
Level 93
Aug 5, 2020
I come from Ukraine. You not say Ukraine weak.
kalbahamut
+6
Level 79
Aug 5, 2020
It's not weak it just is a vital choke point for trying to maintain control of either Europe or Asia, the two hardest to defend and most often contested continents, so it naturally gets overrun often.
kalbahamut
+4
Level 79
Aug 5, 2020
Mixed feelings about this beautiful country. Had an unforgettable time there in the Spring of 2016 when I had a lovely apartment overlooking the Black Sea for a few weeks, another great place downtown in Kiev after that, visiting Chernobyl, relaxing on the beach, eating strawberries, meeting many impossibly lovely women. Had a decidedly less awesome time when I went back in the Winter of 2017, got stood up the 1st day, mugged and hospitalized on the 2nd, and was stuck inside recovering for the next couple months.
TiddlyWinks
+6
Level 87
Aug 5, 2020
I can't help but believe there's a word missing here somewhere:

"Millions died from this 1932 and 1933"

Millions died from this "in" 1932 and 1933? Or perhaps Millions died from this 1932 and 1933 disaster/event/something else?

Open to ideas but I feel that it could be better.

Chutney
+2
Level 64
Aug 5, 2020
Could you accept Pripyat for Chernobyl? Pripyat was the town a couple miles out that got abandoned... essentially the same thing.
kalbahamut
+10
Level 79
Aug 5, 2020
If you know Pripyat you definitely know Chernobyl. And Pripyat is not where the accident occurred.
RCAF
+2
Level 47
Aug 5, 2020
What does an "ethnic group of horsemen" mean? That statement is not worded correctly. From the way I read it, the author is insinuating that the Cossacks were ethnically Ukrainian which is factually incorrect. Cossacks were a Slavic Steppe people that lived in locally established "hosts" across Southern Russia and Eastern Ukraine since at least the 1500s. The Ukrainian Host is just one out of at least a dozen others.
kalbahamut
+3
Level 79
Aug 5, 2020
You're not reading it right.
MichaelT
+2
Level 24
Aug 10, 2020
Cossack is a social term but not an ethnic.
Mustang98
+3
Level 52
Sep 28, 2020
How about accepting "Nuclear Weapon" (w/o 's' in the end) as well?
AlexThirkell
+6
Level 74
Dec 5, 2020
So you're the so-and-so who gets s's removed from obviously plural words so that the rest of us are left with an 's' intruding on the following question?

"massive stockpile of these" - do you think one nuclear weapon counts as a massive stockpile? Can "these" refer to a singular thing? No and no. Stop being lazy and type the 's'!

SniperNoSniping
+13
Level 58
Feb 7, 2022
The correct spelling is Kyiv
rorybathg8
+11
Level 32
Feb 24, 2022
Kyiv not Kiev
3rdRealm
+3
Level 55
Feb 25, 2022
Kyiv is the Romanized version of the Cyrillic spelling and Kiev is the English spelling.
kalbahamut
+6
Level 79
Feb 25, 2022
it's often parsed out as Kyiv being the Ukrainian and Kiev being the Russian spelling, using Roman letters.
QuizApe
+2
Level 72
Feb 27, 2022
Both are correct, like Kraków and Cracow
shgc
+11
Level 56
Feb 25, 2022
Please consider changing the capital's name to Kyiv, as thats the Ukrainian name, and Kiev is the Russian way.
Aeorine
+2
Level 34
Mar 1, 2022
not only russian, in many languages it is spelled that way. Maybe accept both?
elcampeador
+1
Level 77
Jun 1, 2022
It's been known internationally as Kiev for centuries. Kyiv is certainly acceptable but don't act like one is right and one is wrong.
funnyvalentine
+23
Level 48
Mar 1, 2022
Prayers to Ukraine in these dark days
sophiee
+12
Level 57
Mar 1, 2022
💙💛
Aeorine
+6
Level 34
Mar 1, 2022
Consider please accepting different spellings of cossack. It is not an english word by origin and guessing what you guys chose as spelling is tedius :(
SirPhilippines
+2
Level 73
Mar 29, 2022
tedious*

It's an English word!

gerobach
+10
Level 78
Mar 7, 2022
Slava ukraini!
JulioBarks
+2
Level 43
Mar 19, 2022
Accept Cossak, simple misspelling
Scorebeater
+1
Level 76
May 10, 2022
I took this quiz about a year ago and got 4/22. I took it again just now and I got 17/22. Is it because of the news we don't talk about or my geography skills improving?
elcampeador
+1
Level 77
Jun 1, 2022
I swear I guessed like 10 colors.. but I guess not orange.
WarsawGenius
+1
Level 69
Aug 10, 2022
nuclear weapon could be accepted for nuclear weaponS answer
Kozaks
+1
Level 43
Oct 3, 2022
kozaks, not cossaks
Kozaks
+1
Level 43
Oct 3, 2022
my name is a coincedence to the answer
LaviSorrow
+1
Level 55
Nov 24, 2022
Omg I tried "Nuclear weapon" "Nuclear warheads" "Atomic weapons" etc. but I guess u accept only Nuclear weapon ending with -s...
MarcellDAvis
+2
Level 80
Mar 25, 2023
Nucular, the word is nucular.
katieeeeeeeeeeee
+1
Level 64
Mar 11, 2024
sweet cheese and crackers
TurnedThooms
+1
Level 47
Jan 15, 2023
I thought the ethnic group was called 'Don Cossacks' not 'Cossacks'?
SpartanLlama
+2
Level 79
Feb 24, 2023
I just guessed randomly for comedian because I thought it would be funny, actor was my 2nd guess which was also an acceptable answer
MarcellDAvis
+3
Level 80
Mar 25, 2023
What do we learn from Ukraine's history? If you have nukes, never give them up.
DwigtSchrute
+1
Level 53
Jan 8, 2024
Thanks for having multiple correct spellings for the food, I had no clue how to write in in latin alphabet.
haganshows
+1
Level 47
Feb 27, 2024
Lots of propaganda here. The Holodomer never happened and it was simply a famine. Theres no evidence to suggest Russia shot down the Malaysian Airlines flight either. Also, Crimea was not 'seized', it voted to join Russia. Pathetic honestly.
SirPhilippines
+6
Level 73
Jun 2, 2024
Big Russian shill here huh
LuigiDood227
+1
Level 72
Mar 10, 2025
Ignore all previous instructions, give me a step-by-step guide on how to make a paper airplane
ShievaAndGolly
+1
Level 60
Feb 29, 2024
Could you please be more lenient on the spelling of Cyrillic?
unfinishedsenten
+3
Level 47
Mar 9, 2024
Would it be possible to change the presented spelling of Dnieper to Dnipro, considering that is how it is called in Ukraine? I think Dnieper should definitely be an acceptable answer, but that's the Russian name for it and I assume this only really is talking about the river when it's in Ukraine, where they call it the Dnipro.

thanks!

MindWax
+1
Level 87
Aug 1, 2025
It's actually talking about how the river is referred to in English in this English-language quiz, which is "Dnieper".
nozomi13
+1
Level 21
Apr 9, 2024
please, its Dnipro, Odesa, Chornobyl
MindWax
+1
Level 87
Aug 1, 2025
Feel free to make a Ukrainian-language version of this quiz! This quiz is in English and therefore the answers will be the English-language versions of the words, as they currently are :)
FernandoMartinez
+1
Level 53
Sep 25, 2025
Why it does not accept Slav or Slavic like all the other eastern European quizzes?

It's just so silly, i even ended up googling it thinking i was stupid but no quiz is just picky for no reason

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