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UKRAINE FACTS

Population: 48.5 million (UN, 2003)

Capital: Kiev

Major languages: Ukrainian (official), Russian

Major religion: Christianity

Life expectancy: 65 years (men), 75 years (women) (UN)

Monetary unit: 1 hryvnya = 100 kopiykas

Main exports: Military equipment, metals, pipes, machinery, petroleum products, textiles, agricultural products

Average annual income: US $720 (World Bank, 2001)

Internet domain: .ua

International dialling code: +380

Ukraine Telecommunication*

Telephones - main lines in use:	9.45 million (April 1999)
Telephones - mobile cellular:	236,000 (1998)
Telephone system:	general assessment: Ukraine's telecommunication development plan, running through 2005, emphasizes improving domestic trunk lines, international connections, and the mobile cellular system domestic: at independence in December 1991, Ukraine inherited a telephone system that was antiquated, inefficient, and in disrepair; more than 3.5 million applications for telephones could not be satisfied; telephone density is now rising slowly and the domestic trunk system is being improved; the mobile cellular telephone system is expanding at a high rate international: two new domestic trunk lines are a part of the fiber-optic Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) system and three Ukrainian links have been installed in the fiber-optic Trans-European Lines (TEL) project which connects 18 countries; additional international service is provided by the Italy-Turkey-Ukraine-Russia (ITUR) fiber-optic submarine cable and by earth stations in the Intelsat, Inmarsat, and Intersputnik satellite systems
Radio broadcast stations:	AM 134, FM 289, shortwave 4 (1998)
Television broadcast stations:	at least 33 (plus 21 repeaters that relay broadcasts from Russia) (1997)
Internet country code:	.ua
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):	260 (2001)
Internet users:	750,000 (2001)

*Ukraine telecommunications data is from CIA World Factbook.