City with special status in Kiev City Municipality, Ukraine Kiev Київ City with special status Kyiv Counterclockwise (from upper right): Verkhovna Rada, Kiev Pechersk Lavra, Red University Building, House with Chimaeras, Independence Square, statue of Bohdan Khmelnytsky Flag Coat of arms Kiev in Ukraine Kiev Kiev in Ukraine Show map of Ukraine Kiev Kiev (Europe) Show map of Europe Coordinates: 50°27′00″N 30°31′24″Eufeff / ufeff50.45000°N 30.52333°Eufeff / 50.45000; 30.52333Coordinates: 50°27′00″N 30°31′24″Eufeff / ufeff50.45000°N 30.52333°Eufeff / 50.45000; 30.52333 Country Ukraine Municipality Kiev City Municipality Founded 482 A.D. (officially)[1] City council Kiev City Council Raions List of 10 Darnytsia Raion Desna Raion Dnipro Raion Holosiiv Raion Obolon Raion Pechersk Raion Podil Raion Shevchenko Raion Solomianka Raion Sviatoshyn Raion Government •xa0Mayor and Head of City State Administration Vitali Klitschko[2][3] •xa0MPs: Boryslav Bereza Viktor Chumak (BPP) Andriy Illyenko (SV) Oleksandr Suprunenko Andriy Biletsky Volodymyr Ariev (BPP) Oleksandr Tretiakov (BPP) Vyacheslav Konstantinovskiy (PF) Leonid Yemets (PF) Dmytro Andrievsky (BPP) Yuri Levchenko (SV) Area •xa0City with special status 839xa0km2 (324xa0sqxa0mi) Elevation 179xa0m (587xa0ft) Population (1 November 2015) •xa0City with special status 2,900,920[4] •xa0Density 3,299/km2 (8,540/sqxa0mi) •xa0Metro 3,375,000[5]of the Kiev metropolitan area Demonym(s) Kievan,[6] Kyivan[7] GDP (2012) [8] •xa0Total US$34.5 billion •xa0Per capita US$12,200 Time zone UTC+2 (EET) •xa0Summer (DST) UTC+3 (EEST) Postal code 01xxx–04xxx Area code(s) +380 44 FIPS code UP12 License plate AA (before 2004: КА, КВ, КЕ, КН, КІ, KT) Website Official Kiev tourism portal Kiev City State Administration Kiev City Council