1. Ukraine is a country located in Eastern and partially in Central Europe.
2. It borders Belarus to the North, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary to the West, Romania and Moldova to the southwest, and Russia to the East and northeast.
3. The population of Ukraine is 41 million 880 thousand people.
4. The longest river in Ukraine is the Dnieper. The area of its basin within Ukraine is 286,000 km².
5. In the South and South-East it is washed by the Black and Azov seas.
6. The largest cities in Ukraine by area are Kiev, Krivoy Rog and Makeyevka.
7. The official language of our state is Ukrainian.
8. The capital of Ukraine and at the same time its largest city is Kiev.
i have a very good friend. his (her) name is friends are very important in our life. i think one cannot live without friends. the most important thing for being good friends, to my mind, is to be ready to help one another in any situation, nevertheless how difficult it is, to support one another and to solve all the problems together. and never mind, that the friends may have different interests and hobbies, different likes and dislikes. they say that the friend in need is a friend indeed. i think it is really so. my friend and i always do our best to help one another. we discuss all our troubles and try to find the best decision in any situation. my friend is a very good, kind and clever boy (girl). we often spend our free time together. it is not very easy now, because both of us are very busy — we are going to enter institutes and have a lot of work to do. my friend is going to become a doctor (a teacher, an engineer, a lawyer). our future professions are different (the same) and the subjects we have to study are different (the same) too, but (and) we like to work together and to help one another in our study. when we have some free time, we go for walks, read and discuss books, watch films, go to discos or play computer games. playing computer games is our hobby. both of us are fond of sport. we go in for swimming (tennis) and often go to the swimming pool (tennis court) together. we are football fans and we like to watch and discuss football matches on tv or to go to the stadium. i love my friend very much. i think he (she) is a true friend. our friendship is very dear to me and i try to do my best to be a good friend too.