According to the 2002 census, there are over 61 000 Ukrainians living in Romania, divided in three groups:
Ukrainians living in Maramures-Bucovina�the counties of Maramures, Satu Mare, Botosani;
1. Ukrainians living in North Dobrogea and the Danube Delta -the counties of Galati, Tulcea, Constanta;
2. Ukrainians living in Banat -the couties of Timis, Caras-Severin, Arad.
The areas that Ukrainians live in vary greatly in terms of natural, historical, and economic relations. The Ukrainian population lives in relatively communities in the regions of Maramures, Suceava, Banat, and Dobrogea.
The oldest clues about the Ukrainian population in Romania are found in Maramures and date from the fourteenth century. Those documents mention most of the villages where the Ukrainian population lives even today, and some documents mention villages in the North Moldova in the fifteenth century, even though the villages of Candesti and Rogojesti had already existed from the fourteenth century. Ukrainians arrive in Dobrogea, after 1775. In Banat, they arrive from Transcarpatia and Galitia towards the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth.
After the founding of the People`s Republic of Romania in 1947, the Ukrainians had the opportunity to develop their cultural, educational, and civic life. A number of 120 Ukrainian schools were started, and Romanian schools in Siret, Sighet, Suceava, and Tulcea opened classes in Ukrainian. In 1952, the Languages School at the Bucharest University started a Ukrainian section. During this period one newspaper, Novei Vik (New Century) and one magazine, Kulturnei Poradnek , were published.
After the fall of the Ceausescu regime, the Ukrainian life in Romania becomes more intense. In April 1990, the first Congress of the Ukainians` Union in Romania took place, and after that, several Ukrainian schools reopened their doors, and the Vilne slovo (The Free Word) newspaper and the Ukrainskii Visnek (The Ukrainian Courier) magazine, in both Ukrainian and Romanian.
The demographic changes in the Ukrainian population, the emigration and colonization processes during the Middle Ages, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, as well as after each of the world wars, were conducive to the preservation of the Ukrainian ethos in Romania.