Wide spaces of the country's plains are located in the south-western part of the East European Plain. It is surrounded by mountains to its west and extreme south. Most of Ukraine consists of regular plains with the average height above sea level being 175 metres (574 ft). In terms of land use, 58% of Ukraine is considered arable land 2% is used for permanent crops, 13% for permanent pastures, 18% is forests and woodland, and 9% is other. Most of Ukraine consists of fertile plains (or steppes) and plateaus. Most of Ukraine's area is taken up by the steppe-like region just north of the Black Sea. The highest elevation in Ukraine is located at the peak of Mount Hoverla which is 2,061 meters (6,762 ft) above sea level. The western region has the Carpathian Mountains, and some eroded mountains from the Donets Ridge are in the east near the Sea of Azov. Mountains are limited to the west, the southern tip of Ukraine on the Sea of Azov. The highest peak is Hoverla, which is 2,061 metres (6,762 ft) tall. The western regions feature an alpine-like section of Carpathian Mountains, the Eastern Carpathians that stretches across Poland, Ukraine and Romania. Major provinces include, Polesian Lowland, Dnieper Lowland, Volhynia-Podolie Plateau, Black Sea-Azov Lowland, Donets-Azov Plateau, Central Russian Upland, Carpathians, and Pannonian Basin. In general Ukraine comprises two different biomes: mixed forest towards the middle of the continent, and steppe towards the Black Sea littoral. Most of its territory lies within the Great European Plain, while parts of western regions and southern regions lay within the Alpine system. The bright green belt girdling the Black Sea's southern coast, extending westwards, denotes a region of subtropics. Simplified depiction of the biomes lying north of the Black Sea. The village of Vel'ké Slemence is an anomaly, as it is split between Slovakia and Ukraine. The border with Russia is the country's longest border - it runs in part through the Sea of Azov. Ukraine is also bordered by 3,783 kilometers (2,351 mi) of coastline. The border lengths with each country are: Belarus 891 kilometers (554 mi), Hungary 103 kilometers (64 mi), Moldova 939 kilometers (583 mi), Poland 428 kilometers (266 mi), Romania 169 kilometers (105 mi) on the south and 362 kilometers (225 mi) on the west, Russia 1,974 kilometers (1,227 mi), and Slovakia 90 kilometers (56 mi). The land border of Ukraine totals 6,993 kilometers (4,345 mi). Ukraine has an Exclusive Economic Zone of 147,318 km 2 (56,880 sq mi) in the Black Sea. The total geographic area of Ukraine is 603,550 square kilometers (233,030 sq mi). The country borders Poland, Slovakia and Hungary in the west, Belarus in the north, Moldova and Romania in the south-west and Russia in the east. Ukraine is located in Eastern Europe: lying on the northern shores of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. Despite this, the country faces a number of major environmental issues such as inadequate supplies of potable water, air and water pollution, deforestation, and radioactive contamination in the north-east from the 1986 accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Significant natural resources in Ukraine include lithium, natural gas, kaolin, timber and an abundance of arable land. The snow melt from the mountains feeds the rivers and their waterfalls. Near the Sea of Azov can be found the Donets Ridge and the Near Azov Upland. To the east there are the south-western spurs of the Central Russian Upland, over which runs the border with the Russia. Ukraine also has a number of highland regions such as the Volyn-Podillia Upland (in the west) and the Near-Dnipro Upland (on the right bank of the Dnieper). The country's only mountains are the Carpathian Mountains in the west, of which the highest is Hoverla at 2,061 metres (6,762 ft), and the Crimean Mountains, in the extreme south along the coast. To the southwest, the delta of the Danube forms the border with Romania. The landscape of Ukraine consists mostly of fertile steppes and plateaus, crossed by rivers such as the Dnieper, Seversky Donets, Dniester and the Southern Bug as they flow south into the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov. Lying between latitudes 44° and 53° N, and longitudes 22° and 41° E, Ukraine covers an area of 603,628 square kilometres (233,062 sq mi), with a coastline of 2,782 kilometres (1,729 mi). Its various regions have diverse geographic features ranging from highlands to lowlands, as well as climatic range and a wide variety in hydrography. Ukraine is the second-largest European country, after Russia. The geography of Ukraine varies greatly from one region of the country to another, with the majority of the country lying within the East European Plain.
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