Ukraine
/juːˈkreɪn/- a country in eastern Europe, to the north of the Black Sea; pop. 45,700,400 (est. 2009); languages, Ukrainian and Russian; capital, Kiev.乌克兰（东欧国家, 南临黑海, 2009年估计人口45,700, 400; 语言乌克兰语和俄语, 首都基辅）。
Ukraine was united with Russia, with the capital at Kiev, in the 9th century. After a period of division between Poland, Russia, and the Ottoman Empire it was reunited with Russia in 1785. Briefly independent following the 1917 revolution, it became one of the original constituent republics (and the third largest) of the USSR. In 1991, on the break-up of the Soviet Union, Ukraine became an independent republic.
词源
from obsolete Russian ukraina 'frontier regions', from u ' at' + kraī 'edge'.