Black borderlines as presented at the Paris Peace Conference in 1918-1919; Red borders are current. Can you guess why they shrank so much? And why they keep shrinking all the time?
There is only one answer…
At 233,000 square miles, Ukraine is approximately the size of New Mexico and Arizona together, although the Ukrainian population is 45,000,000 while the population of New Mexico and Arizona together is 9,000,000.