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The Crimean Peninsula (" Krymskiy poluostrov ;" , " Kryms ' ky pivostriv "), also known simply as Crimea ( " Krym " " Krym "), is a major land mass on the northern coast of the ___MASK81___ that is almost completely surrounded by both the ___MASK81___ and the smaller ___MASK45___ to the northeast . The peninsula is located south of the Ukrainian region of Kherson and west of the Russian region of Kuban . It is connected to Kherson Oblast by the Isthmus of Perekop and is separated from Kuban by the Strait of Kerch . The Arabat Spit is located to the northeast , a narrow strip of land that separates a system of lagoons named Sivash from the ___MASK45___ . The Bug River ( or ___MASK67___ " Zakhidnyy Buh , ") is a major European river which flows through three countries with a total length of . Romania is a sovereign state located in Southeastern Europe . It borders the ___MASK81___ , Bulgaria , Ukraine , Hungary , Serbia , and Moldova . It has an area of and a temperate - continental climate . With 19 . 94 million inhabitants , the country is the seventh - most - populous member state of the European Union . The capital and largest city , Bucharest , with its 1 , 883 , 425 inhabitants is the sixth - largest city in the EU . Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe , situated between the ___MASK73___ in the north and two mountain ranges ( the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains ) in the south . Bordered by Germany to the west ; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south ; Ukraine and Belarus to the east ; and the ___MASK73___ , Kaliningrad Oblast ( a Russian exclave ) and Lithuania to the north . The total area of Poland is , making it the 69th largest country in the world and the 9th largest in Europe . With a population of over 38 . 5 million people , Poland is the 34th most populous country in the world , the 8th most populous country in Europe and the sixth most populous member of the European Union . Poland is a unitary state divided into 16 administrative subdivisions , and its capital and largest city is Warsaw . Other metropolises include Kraków , Wrocaw , Pozna , Gdask and Szczecin . The ___MASK45___ (" Azovs ' ke more / Azovke more ") is a sea in Eastern Europe . To the south it is linked by the narrow ( about ) Strait of Kerch to the Black Sea , and it is sometimes regarded as a northern extension of the Black Sea . The sea is bounded in the north by mainland Ukraine , in the east by Russia , and in the west by the Crimean Peninsula . The Don and Kuban are the major rivers that flow into it . The ___MASK45___ is the shallowest sea in the world , with the depth varying between . There is a constant outflow of water from the ___MASK45___ to the Black Sea . The ___MASK81___ is a body of water between Eastern Europe and Western Asia , bounded by Bulgaria , Georgia , Romania , Russia , Turkey , and Ukraine . It is supplied by a number of major rivers , such as the Danube , Dnieper , Rioni , Southern Bug , and Dniester . The ___MASK81___ has an area of ( not including the ___MASK45___ ), a maximum depth of , and a volume of . It is constrained by the Pontic Mountains to the south and by the Caucasus Mountains to the east , and features a wide shelf to the northwest . The longest east - west extent is about . Ukraine ( tr . ) is a sovereign state in Eastern Europe , bordered by Russia to the east and northeast , Belarus to the northwest , Poland and Slovakia to the west , Hungary , Romania , and Moldova to the southwest , and the ___MASK81___ and ___MASK45___ to the south and southeast , respectively . Ukraine is currently in territorial dispute with Russia over the Crimean Peninsula which Russia annexed in 2014 but which Ukraine and most of the international community recognise as Ukrainian . Including Crimea , Ukraine has an area of , making it the largest country entirely within Europe and the 46th largest country in the world . It has a population of about 44 . 5 million , making it the 32nd most populous country in the world . The Second Polish Republic , also known as the Second Commonwealth of Poland or interwar Poland , refers to the country of Poland between the First and Second World Wars ( 1918  1939 ). Officially known as the Republic of Poland or the Commonwealth of Poland , the Polish state was recreated in 1918 , in the aftermath of World War I . When , after several regional conflicts , the borders of the state were fixed in 1922 , Poland ' s neighbours were Czechoslovakia , Germany , the Free City of Danzig , Lithuania , Latvia , Romania and the Soviet Union . It had access to the ___MASK73___ via a short strip of coastline either side of the city of Gdynia . Between March and August 1939 , Poland also shared a border with the then - Hungarian governorate of Subcarpathia . Despite internal and external pressures , it continued to exist until 1939 , when Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany , the Soviet Union and the Slovak Republic , marking the beginning of World War II in Europe . The Second Republic was significantly different in territory to the current Polish state . It included substantially more territory in the east and less in the west . Chervonohrad ( Ukrainian :  , Polish : Czerwonogród ) is a mining city located in the Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine . Chervonohrad is designated as a city of oblast significance . It about 62 km north of Lviv , 7 km from Sokal , and 28 km northeast of the town of Voroniv . Population : 68 , 000 ( 2013 est . ) . Prior to 1953 , the city was known as Krystynopil ( Ukrainian :  , translit . Krystynopil ' ) . The German name for it was Krisnipolye . The city is known for mining that started in the 1950s . It passed from Poland to the USSR after the territory exchange in 1951 . Local Ukrainians also frequently refer to the city as `` Krasnohrad , '' literally meaning red city in the Russian language . The municipality of Chervonohrad also includes the town of Sosnivka and the urban type settlement of Hirnyk . Lviv (', ', ; Yiddish :  ; Latin : " Leopolis "), the largest city in western Ukraine and the seventh largest city in the country overall , is one of the ___MASK68___ cultural centres of Ukraine . Named in honor of the Leo , the eldest son of Rus ' King Daniel of Galicia . It was the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia  Volhynia ( also called Kingdom of Rus ') from 1272 to 1349 , when it was conquered by King Casimir III the Great who then became known as the King of Poland and Rus '. From 1434 , it was the regional capital of the Ruthenian Voivodeship in the Kingdom of Poland and was known as Lwów . In 1772 , after the First partition of Poland , the city became the capital of the Habsburg Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria and was renamed to Lemberg . In 1918 in a short time was the capital of the West Ukrainian People ' s Republic . Between the wars , the city was known again as Lwów and was the centre of the Lwów Voivodeship in the Second Polish Republic . After World War II , it became part of the Soviet Union ( Ukrainian SSR ) and in 1991 of independent Ukraine . Administratively , Lviv serves as the administrative center of Lviv Oblast and has the status of city of oblast significance . Its population is . Europe is a continent that comprises the westernmost part of Eurasia . Europe is bordered by the ___MASK4___ to the north , the ___MASK27___ to the west , and the Mediterranean Sea to the south . To the east and southeast , Europe is generally considered as separated from Asia by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains , the Ural River , the Caspian and Black Seas , and the waterways of the Turkish Straits . Yet the non - oceanic borders of Europe  a concept dating back to classical antiquity  are arbitrary . The primarily physiographic term " continent " as applied to Europe also incorporates cultural and political elements whose discontinuities are not always reflected by the continent ' s current overland boundaries . Sokal ( translit . " Sokal ") is a city located on the banks of the Bug River in Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine . It serves as the administrative center of Sokal Raion ( district ). Population : .