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In April 2020 Ukraine did something no country had done before: it made the passport on your phone legally equal to the passport in your pocket. Through the state app Diia, a citizen's biometric passport and ID card became full legal analogues of the physical documents for domestic use, a world first. It was the natural next step for a country whose paper passport is itself a high-security object, with laser-imprinted black-and-white photos, microtext and a hidden second portrait that appears only when a page is held up to the light, and whose holders gained 90-day visa-free entry to the entire Schengen Area in June 2017.

• Digital ID Ukraine was the first country in the world to give a smartphone passport full legal force, recognising the biometric passport and ID card inside the Diia app as complete analogues of the paper and plastic originals.
• Passport power On the 2025 Henley Passport Index the Ukrainian passport ranked 30th, opening 148 destinations to its holders without a prior visa.
• Hidden security The Ukrainian biometric passport hides a second portrait of the holder that becomes visible only when a page is held up to the light, alongside microtext, holograms and ultraviolet printing.
• Visa-free EU Since 11 June 2017, Ukrainians with a biometric passport can travel across the Schengen Area visa-free for up to 90 days in any 180-day window.
• Currency name The hryvnia is named after a neck ornament worn in the age of Kyivan Rus; as early as the 8th-9th centuries the word meant a unit of weight, with silver hryvnia ingots of 160-205 grams circulating by the 11th century.
• Money reform When Ukraine launched the modern hryvnia in September 1996, it swapped out the inflation-ravaged karbovanets at a staggering rate of 100,000 to 1.
• Banknote faces Ukraine's banknotes honour thinkers over politicians: the 500-hryvnia note carries the 18th-century wandering philosopher Hryhorii Skovoroda, while the 1,000-hryvnia note features scientist Volodymyr Vernadsky.
• Oldest charter Hetman Pylyp Orlyk's Constitution of 1710, drafted in exile, is among the world's oldest written constitutions and already separated state power into branches decades before modern charters.
• Largest in Europe Ukraine is the largest country lying entirely within Europe by area, and a surveying marker erected in 1887 near the village of Dilove has long been claimed as the geographical centre of the continent.