Ukraine
Ukraine is one of the 193 UN member states, in Eastern Europe. UN Tourism counted 13.7 million international arrivals there in 2019, more visited than 83% of the 199 places with figures, so its stamp in Globestamp is printed in Foil.
- International arrivals
- 13.7 millionin 2019, UN Tourism
- Rank by visitors
- 35th of 199most visited first
- Stamp finish
- Foilrarer than 17%
- Area
- 570,175 km² (220,146 sq mi)
- Population
- 44.4 millionNatural Earth estimate
- Regions
- 25in Globestamp’s regions layer
- World Heritage Sites
- 4on Globestamp’s list
Does Ukraine count as a country?
Yes. Ukraine is one of the 193 UN member states, so every common list counts it: the UN’s 193, Globestamp’s 250 and the Travelers’ Century Club’s 330.
| List | Counts Ukraine? |
|---|---|
| UN member states (193) | Yes, a member |
| Globestamp’s countries and territories (250) | Yes |
| Travelers’ Century Club (330) | Yes, as Ukraine |
| European Union | No |
| Schengen area | No |
Part of the map here is disputed (Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk). Globestamp takes no side: when a photo was taken in a disputed place, you decide which country it counts for.
The Ukraine stamp
Every country in Globestamp has its own stamp, drawn after a real entry stamp. Its finish shows how few travelers get there. Ukraine’s is Foil: a hot-stamped foil block in the ink’s own colour, the finish for places with 6 to 15 million visitors a year. With 13.7 million international arrivals in 2019, Ukraine is more visited than 83% of the 199 places with figures. See every stamp on the stamp wall, or the rarest on the least-visited countries.
What counts as a visit to Ukraine
The common rule among travelers is that you set foot there: an airport layover usually doesn’t count, and a port where you went ashore does. Globestamp counts Ukraine when one of your photos was taken on its ground, or just off its coast; a photo taken from a plane never counts. Ukraine has no airport with scheduled flights, so most visitors arrive by road, rail or sea. Read more in how to count the countries you’ve visited.
Places in Ukraine you can collect
Under the country itself, Globestamp keeps layers of places on your globe, and a photo taken at one ticks it. These are the ones it knows in Ukraine, from 4 World Heritage Sites.
World Heritage Sites 4
Old Town of Lviv (1998) · Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans (2011) · historical city centre of Odesa (2023) · Kyiv: Saint-Sophia Cathedral and Related Monastic Buildings, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra (1990). On the bucket list →
National parks 3
Carpathian National Nature Park · Uzhanskyi National Nature Park · Podilski Tovtry National Park. On the bucket list →
Ski resorts 7
Bukovel · Avanhard (Vorokhta) · Voevodyno · VyshHora · Zarosliak · Bukovytsia and 1 more. On the bucket list →
Wine regions 2
Chateau Chizay · Shabo Winery. On the bucket list →
Theme parks 3
Pripyat amusement park · Mamajeva Sloboda · Kids play park Kazka. On the bucket list →
Zoos and aquariums 13
Kyiv Zoo · Odesa Zoo · Kharkiv Zoo · Cherkasy Zoo and 9 more. On the bucket list →
Botanical gardens 23
Sofiyivsky Park · Hryshko National Botanical Garden · A.V. Fomin Botanical Garden · Odesa Botanical Gardens and 19 more. On the bucket list →
Science museums and planetariums 10
Poltava Museum of Long-Range and Strategic Aviation · Kharkiv planetarium · Kyiv Planetarium · Kharkiv Maritime Museum and 6 more. On the bucket list →
Largest cities
| City | People (urban area) |
|---|---|
| Kyiv | 2,709,000 |
| Kharkiv | 1,461,000 |
| Dnipro | 1,050,000 |
| Odessa | 991,000 |
| Donetsk | 988,000 |
| Lviv | 803,880 |
| Zaporizhzhya | 788,000 |
| Kryvyy Rih | 652,380 |
25 regions to fill in
Globestamp goes deeper than countries: its regions layer splits Ukraine into 25 regions (Natural Earth’s first-level divisions), and each one fills in when a photo was taken there.
All 25
Cherkasy · Chernihiv · Chernivtsi · Dnipropetrovsk · Donetsk · Ivano-Frankivsk · Kharkiv · Kherson · Khmelnytskyi · Kirovohrad · Kyiv · Kyiv · Luhansk · Lviv · Mykolaiv · Odessa · Poltava · Rivne · Sumy · Ternopil · Vinnytsia · Volyn · Zakarpattia · Zaporizhzhia · Zhytomyr
Questions people ask
Is Ukraine a country?
Yes. Ukraine is one of the 193 UN member states, so every common list counts it: the UN’s 193, Globestamp’s 250 and the Travelers’ Century Club’s 330.
How many tourists visit Ukraine a year?
UN Tourism (via the World Bank) counted 13,710,000 international arrivals in Ukraine in 2019, the 35th most of the 199 places with figures. Countries count arrivals in different ways (some include day-trippers and cruise passengers), so treat it as a rough rank rather than an exact number of tourists.
How rare is a Ukraine stamp in Globestamp?
It is printed in Foil, the finish for places with 6 to 15 million visitors a year, rarer than 17% of the places with figures. The fewer travelers a place receives, the rarer its finish, from plain Ink to Mythic.
Does Ukraine count for the Travelers’ Century Club?
Yes. The Travelers’ Century Club counts it as “Ukraine”, one of its 330 destinations.
Places as rare as Ukraine
Near Ukraine
Sources
- Countries, cities and regions: Natural Earth 10m admin-0 (public domain); lists as of October 2026.
- Visitors: UN Tourism via the World Bank, ST.INT.ARVL (International tourism, number of arrivals), CC BY 4.0, data updated 2026-10-08. Each country's latest year before 2020. Countries count visitors differently; use as a rough rank.
- World Heritage Sites, parks, landmarks and the bucket-list places: Wikidata (CC0), as compiled in the app, October 2026.
- Airports: OurAirports (public domain), airports with scheduled service.
- Travelers’ Century Club: the club’s list of 330 destinations, as of January 2022.