Capital of the Ukraine

The answer

KIEV

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the KIEV answer page.

Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2011; first recorded in 1953. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for KIEV

Every other clue in this collection answered by KIEV, most used first.

• Ukraine's capital - used 83 times, most recently in 2023
• Chicken ___ - used 70 times, most recently in 2025
• Capital of Ukraine - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
• Ukrainian capital - used 28 times, most recently in 2019
• City on the Dnieper - used 26 times, most recently in 2017
• Chicken style - used 14 times, most recently in 2017
• Ukraine capital - used 14 times, most recently in 2019
• Capital on the Dnieper - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
• Ukrainian city - used 10 times, most recently in 1999
• Chicken ___ (deep-fried dish) - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
• Eastern European capital - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• Chicken dish - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
• Russian city - used 8 times, most recently in 1996
• Ukraine city - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
• City on the Dnepr - used 7 times, most recently in 1999
• European capital - used 7 times, most recently in 2018

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