Countries

Ukraine

One of the world's largest exporters of wheat, corn and sunflower oil, grown on chernozem, some of the most fertile soil on Earth. Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 and has occupied parts of the east and south since 2022; the map follows Ukraine's internationally recognised borders.

The Dormition Cathedral's golden domes at the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, a cave monastery complex in Kyiv, Ukraine

Kyiv Pechersk Lavra

Photo: Francisco Anzola, CC BY 2.0

Blue over yellow, widely read as sky over wheat fields, a nod to the country's grain-growing plains. Adopted in its current form in 1992, reviving a flag first used by the short-lived Ukrainian People's Republic in 1918.

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