○○○ Carpathian ⪢⪢
The country consists of flat and fertile plains with the exception of the Carpathian mountain range that arches into the far west of the country.
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○○○ physical ⪢⪢
Physically Ukraine is about the size of Texas.
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○○○ quintessential ⪢⪢
Ukraine is the quintessential borderland state.
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○○○ to the south ⪢⪢
Ukraine also has a coastline along the Black Sea to the south.
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○○○ Ukraine ⪢⪢
The country borders three former soviet states; Russia, Belarus, Moldova and four countries in the European Union; Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania.
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○○○ USSR ⪢⪢
Ukraine shares borders with Russia, Belarus, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Moldova, all countries that used to have close ties to the former USSR. ￫ Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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