Admeenistrative diveesions o Ukraine

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Ukraine is subdividit intae 24 oblasts (regions), ane autonomous republic, an twa "ceities wi special status". The Ukrainian subdiveesion seestem reflects the kintra's status as a unitary state (as statit in the kintra's constitution) wi unifeed legal an admeenistrative regime fur ilka unit.

Fur an unnerstaundin o the cultural an socioeconomic differs athin the kintra, a knawledge o the Ukrainian historical regions is crucial in studyin the admeenistrative structur.

Follaein the 2014 Crimean crisis, the Crimea an Sevastopol cam unner the the Roushian Federation's de facto administration, whilk claims thaim as the Republic o Crimea and the federal ceity o Sevastopol. Internaitionally, maist states hisnae recognised the Roushian claims.

Ukraine inheritit its administrative divisions direct frae the local republican administration o the Soviet Union, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, an the oweraw structure didnae chynge signeificantly frae the middle o the 20t yeirhunner til the 2020 reforms; it wis somewhit complex, as aside haein several levels o a territorial subdivision it forby haed a classification fur various populate places, particularly ceities. The 2020 reforms, maugre reteenin the oblasts an twa ceities wi special status (o whilk Sevastopol is - like Crimea - de facto unner Russian administration), the seicond-tier level wis radically reduced in nummer frae 490 tae 136 districts (raions), wi aw the 118 umwhile "ceities o regional significance" merged intae the new districts.

General scope o admeenistrative diveesion

Cairt o the first level o admeenistrative diveesion o Ukraine.

Structur

Thare is three major subdiveesions: oblast (region), raion (destrict), an rada (municipality) ceity, toun, an rural.

Ceities aaways hae thair awn form o sel-admeenistration (municipality) dependin on thair status an some mey conseest o thair awn ceity's destricts (raions). A basic an the lawest level o admeenistrative diveesion is a municipality (or rada - cooncil). Municipalities can be ceity, urban or rural, locally abbreviatit as miskradas, selyshchna rada or silradas, respectively.

Ceities municipalities

For ensaumple, the municipalities o Kiev an o Sevastopol hae the special status o a naitional importance (significance) an ilkane is offeecially classifeed as a ceity wi a special status, whilk admeenistratively is equivalent tae an oblast (region). Mayors o thae ceities, in general, as govrenors o oblasts is bein appointit bi the Preses o Ukraine. Housomeivver, the status o the Mayor o Kiev ceity, in pairticular, is somewhit mair complex, an fur mair information see Legal status an local govrenment o Kiev. The status o the Sevastopol ceity is unique an aw.

On the oblast level awmaist ilkane haes at least ane ceity o oblast subordination (importance) whilk is the admeenistrative center (caipital) o that oblast. Housomeivver, some ither big ceities athin the oblast mey hae sic status as weel. The ceities o oblast subordination haes the same importance o a hale raion an is aften thair admeenistrative centers. Note that aside the regular raions thare is several ceities in Ukraine uisually o naitional (mentioned earlier) or oblast status that is subdividit intae several ceity raions o thair ain. Thae raions mey whiles include ither ceities, touns, an/or veelages. In 2010 thare wis 23 sic ceities that hae ceity raions.

A wheen o raions hae ceity municipalities o its level o subordination (importance) an aw. Thaim are uisually the admeenistrative centers (caipitals). No aw raions (destricts) haes a ceity as thair admeenistrative center; housomeivver, aw the raion (destrict) centers is at least urban-lik (urbanised). Aw admeenistrative centers haes thair ain form o sel-admeenistration. A raion's subordination municipalities mey admeenister several ither adjacent tae thaim local councils (municipalities), uisually rural. If a raion haes several raion (destrict) level ceities, thay mey skare an admeenistrative pouer fur the raion.

Ither municipalities

As it wis mentioned abuin, aside ceity municipalities thare is urban-lik municipalities. The lawest form o sel-admeenistration is rural municipalities an veelages. A rural municipality mey conseest o ae veelage, uisually big, or combination o ither rural veelages or localities. Some veelages haes some addeitional vera sma settlements an aw. Those settlements thegither wi the hame veelage combine a local (rural) municipality (silrada). For simplicity's sake, silrada (rural municipality) is uisually refert tae as a veelage an is the lawest level o admeenistrative diveesion. The status tae ony settlement is grantit throu the Verkhovna Rada.

Ither admeenistrations

Thare is some umwhile militar installation-settlements (viiskove mistechko) an aw. Syne the faw o the Soviet Union, the secrecy o sic settlements wis "unveiled", housomeivver, thae touns bein subordinatit directly tae the Meenistry o Defence an dae no hae thair awn ceevil admeenistration. Sic military installations are lik ghost touns that are no even identifeed on a cairt. Ane o them is on the mairch o the Kiev an Zhytomyr Oblasts cried Makarov-1.^[1] Thare is a special territory whilk is unner the jurisdiction o the Emergencies Meenistry an aw. It is the territory whilk suffert the maist frae the Chernobyl Catastrophe, kent as the Zone o alienation. Some restrictit territories belang the Ecology Meenistry (umwhile Natur Environment) an is conseidert natur sanctuaries (preserves).

Thir days, thare is three enclaves. The ceity o Slavutych is admeenistratively subordinate direct tae the Kiev Oblast, while bein completely surroondit bi Belaroushie an Chernihiv region. Anither enclave is a settlement Bile whilk is locate on the Snake island an is fully surroondit bi the Black Sea. Bile is pairt o the Vylkove ceity o the Odessa Oblast. Atoun o Kotsyubynske (Irpin municipality) which is pairt o the Kiev region is completely surroondit bi the ceity o Kiev an aw.

Ither nomenclaturs fur local settlements that is nou abandoned include khutir, wirkers' settlement etc.

The follaein table is based on the 2001 Ukrainian Census.

Degree o diveesion	Territorial	Number	Ceities/ither settlements	Number	Tot settlements
1	Crimea	1	-	-	-
1	region/oblast	24	special status ceity	2	459
2	destrict/raion	490	region level ceity	178
2	-	-	ceity destrict	118
3	-	-	destrict level ceity	279

	municipality, toun/urban-type	783	ither toun/urban-type settlement	102	885
4	municipality, rural	10278	veelage	27190	28456
5	-	-	rural settlement/selyshche	1266	28456

Types o settlements

Settlements bi Status
Status [1] Archived 2007-12-31 at the Wayback Machine		Status (in Ukrainian)	Tot Number (as o 2006)
misto / ceity		місто	457
	municipality	місто зі спеціальним статусом	2
	misto oblastnoho znachennia	місто областного значення	176
	misto raionnoho znachennia	місто районного значення	279
selyshche miskoho typu / toun		селище міського типу	886
selo / veelage		сільський населений пункт	28,552
	selysche	селище	1,364
	selo	село	27,188

Thare are twa types o settlements: rural an urban.

Rural

Rural populatit auries (сільський населений пункт) can be aither a veelage (село, selo) or a rural settlement (селище).

Urban

Urban populatit auries (міський населений пункт) can be aither a ceity (місто) or an urbanized settlement (селище міського типу). Urbanized settlements for a brevity sake aften are classifeed as touns in the Scots leid.

The chynges tae a settlement status can be done anerlie bi the Verkhovna Rada. Please, note that the size o a settlement daes no ultimately define its status awtho is a major factor. For ensaumple, the ceity o Prypiat in Ukraine still retains its status, while haein a population o zero (0) residents due tae its infrastructur: biggins, roads, utility netwirks, etc.

Ceity vs. toun in Ukraine

The teepical Ukrainian misto ocht tae be conseidert a ceity, no a toun (compare tae Ceity status in the Unitit Kinrick). Housomeivver, the ceity's subordination tae aither oblast or raion should be taken intae accoont an aw, especially in the political sense. Some o urbanized settlements mey be ceities o raion subordination, awtho it coud seem confusin, a type o settlement shoud be considered first as its status is gien for admeenistrative purposes.

Leet o regions

List o Ukraine's oblasts
Region	Aurie (sq mi)	Population (2010)	Density	Centre ceity	Raions/Destricts	Important ceities
Crimea	10,038.0	1,965,031	195.76	Simferopol	10	11
Cherkasy Oblast	8,069.5	1,291,135	160.00	Cherkasy	4	6
Chernihiv Oblast	12,303.1	1,104,241	89.75	Chernihiv	5	3
Chernivtsi Oblast	3,126.3	903,782	289.09	Chernivtsi	3	2
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast	12,322.1	3,344,073	271.39	Dnipro	7	13
Donetsk Oblast	10,238.3	4,448,031	434.45	Donetsk	8	28
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast	5,366.8	1,380,770	257.28	Ivano-Frankivsk	6	5
Kharkiv Oblast	12,129.4	2,755,177	227.15	Kharkiv	7	7
Kherson Oblast	10,988.9	1,091,151	99.30	Kherson	5	3
Khmelnytskyi Oblast	7,971.1	1,331,534	167.05	Khmelnytskyi	3	6
Kiev Oblast	10,861.4	1,719,602	158.32	Kiev	7	13
Kirovohrad Oblast	9,493.5	1,014,809	106.90	Kropyvnytskyi	4	4
Luhansk Oblast	10,302.7	2,300,412	223.28	Luhansk	8	4
Lviv Oblast	8,429.8	2,545,634	301.98	Lviv	7	9
Mykolaiv Oblast	9,497.3	1,186,452	124.93	Mykolaiv	4	5
Odessa Oblast	12,861.1	2,387,636	185.65	Odessa	7	7
Poltava Oblast	11,099.7	1,493,668	134.57	Poltava	4	5
Rivne Oblast	7,740.2	1,152,576	148.91	Rivne	4	4
Sumy Oblast	9,202.4	1,166,765	126.79	Sumy	5	7
Ternopil Oblast	5,337.1	1,086,694	203.61	Ternopil	3	1
Vinnytsia Oblast	10,236.7	1,646,250	160.82	Vinnytsia	6	6
Volyn Oblast	7,777.6	1,038,223	133.49	Lutsk	4	4
Zakarpattia Oblast	4,933.2	1,246,323	252.64	Uzhhorod	6	5
Zaporizhia Oblast	10,494.3	1,805,431	172.04	Zaporizhia	5	5
Zhytomyr Oblast	11,518.2	1,283,201	111.41	Zhytomyr	4	5
Kiev (Kyiv)	323.9	2,782,016	8589.12	Kiev	10	1
Sevastopol	416.6	380,301	912.87	Sevastopol	4	2

Namin

Names o Ukraine's admeenistrative units
Ukrainian	Romanized¹	Scots widespread	Scots recommended (formal uise)	Scots recommended (informal uise)
автономна республіка	avtonomna respublika	(autonomous) republic	autonomous republic	autonomy
область	oblast'	region², province	oblast	province
район	raion	destrict, region³, aurie, coonty	raion	destrict
місто	misto	ceity, municipality	misto	ceity, municipality⁵
місто зі спеціальним статусом	misto zi spetsial'nym statusom	special-status municipality, special-charter municipality⁴	municipality	municipality, ceity
місто областного значення	misto oblastnoho znachennia	ceity o oblast subordinance	misto oblastnoho znachennia	ceity o oblast subordinance
місто районного значення	misto raionnoho znachennia	ceity o raion subordinance	misto raionnoho znachennia	ceity o raion subordinance
селище міського типу	selysche mis'koho typu	toun, urban-type settlement	selysche mis'koho typu	toun, urban-type settlement
сільський населений пункт	sil'skyi naselenyi punkt	veelage, rural-type settlement	selo	veelage, rural-type settlement
селище	selysche	veelage	selysche	veelage
село	selo	veelage	selo	veelage

Notes

Romanized uisin Ukrainian Naitional staundart. Details at Romanization o Ukrainian.
Province is mair precise acause region mey refer tae supranaitional geographic entity an aw.
Region is ambiguous syne it uisually refers tae lairger naitional-level units; aurie is inaccurate.

4. Mey be referred as republican status an aw.
5. Ceity refers exclusively tae the ceity admeenistration (uisually smawer ceities), while some ceities include ither urban an rural admeenistrations sic collective admeenistrations form ceity cooncils - municipalities.

Oblast

Wancommon in Inglis leid term oblast in the Ukraine is interchyngeably uised wi mair common region whilk is a general term uised for oblasts an the Republic o the Crimea. Maist o the Ukraine's oblast (regions) is named efter thair admeenistrative centers (aw ceities). Ilka region generally consists o aboot ane tae twa million fowk an haes aboot 20 destricts (raions).

Nomenclatur grammatical aspect

The name o ilka oblast is a relative adjective, formed bi addin a feminine suffix tae the respective centre ceity's name. E.g. Poltava is a centre o Poltavs'ka oblast' (Poltava Oblast). Maist o thaim are whiles refert tae in a feminine noun form an aw, follaein the convention o traditional regional place names, endin wi the suffix "-shchyna". E.g. Poltava Oblast is cried Poltavshchyna an aw.

Exceptions tae this rule include:

Twa oblasts, Volyn an Zakarpattia, whilk retain the names o thair respective historical regions, Volyn' (Volhynia) an Zakarpattia (Transcarpathie), whase respective caipitals is Lutsk an Uzhhorod.
Twa ceities: Kiev whilk is an independently admeenistrated ceity frae the surroondin Kiev Oblast an Sevastopol whilk, maugre bein locate on the Crimean peninsula, isnae admeenistratively pairt o the Crimea. Kiev is, housomeivver, the admeenistrative centre o Kiev Oblast (the oblast's admeenistrative bodies is situate inside the ceity) an aw.

An oblast centre in Ukraine is uisually the lairgest an maist developit ceity in gien region.

Oblasts whiles refert tae as provinces, housomeivver historically provinces wis pairt o admeenistrative diveesion o the Roushie Empire, territories o whilk the day aften ais different. Fur ensaumple, the umwhile Volhynie province encompasses the Rivne Oblast, the Volyn Oblast, an includes some territories in the Ternopil Oblast an aw. See Leet o etymologies o kintra subdiveesion names: "Ukraine" as weel.

Autonomous Republic o Crimea

The Autonomous Republic o Crimea (Ukrainian: Автономна Республіка Крим, Avtonomna Respublika Krym, Crimean Tatar: Qırım Muhtar Cumhuriyeti), umwhile Crimea Oblast o the Ukrainian SSR, is geographically the main pairt o Crimean peninsulae in the sooth o Ukraine. Its caipital is Simferopol.

Raions

Raions is sma territorial units o subdiveesion o Ukraine. Thare is 490 raions in 24 oblasts an Crimea autonomous republic o Ukraine. An average aurie o Ukrainian raion is 1,200 km2 (463 sq mi), an average population o raions is 52,000 fowk.