Oblasts of Ukraine facts for kids

The Oblasts of Ukraine are like the main regions or provinces that make up the country of Ukraine. Think of them as big areas, similar to states in the USA or large counties in other countries. Ukraine has 24 of these oblasts. Each oblast has its own capital city, which is usually the largest city in that region.

What is an Oblast?

An oblast is the highest level of administrative division in Ukraine. This means it's how the country is divided up for government and management purposes. Each oblast has its own local government that helps manage things like schools, hospitals, and roads in that region.

How Oblasts are Organized

Each oblast is further divided into smaller areas called raions. You can think of raions as smaller districts within an oblast. Besides raions, some cities are known as "cities of regional importance." This means they are big and important enough to be managed directly by the oblast government, rather than being part of a raion.

List of Oblasts

Here is a list of the 24 oblasts in Ukraine, along with some facts about them from 2010. You can see how large each one is, how many people live there, and their main administrative city.

Region	Area (sq mi)	Population (2010)	Pop. density	Administrative centre	Raions/Districts	Cities of regional importance
Cherkasy Oblast	8,069.5	1,291,135	160.00	Cherkasy	20	6
Chernihiv Oblast	12,303.1	1,104,241	89.75	Chernihiv	22	3
Chernivtsi Oblast	3,126.3	903,782	289.09	Chernivtsi	11	2
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast	12,322.1	3,344,073	271.39	Dnipropetrovsk	22	13
Donetsk Oblast	10,238.3	4,448,031	434.45	Donetsk	18	28
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast	5,366.8	1,380,770	257.28	Ivano-Frankivsk	14	5
Kharkiv Oblast	12,129.4	2,755,177	227.15	Kharkiv	27	7
Kherson Oblast	10,988.9	1,091,151	99.30	Kherson	18	3
Khmelnytskyi Oblast	7,971.1	1,331,534	167.05	Khmelnytskyi	20	6
Kiev Oblast	10,861.4	1,719,602	158.32	Kiev	25	13
Kirovohrad Oblast	9,493.5	1,014,809	106.90	Kirovohrad	21	4
Luhansk Oblast	10,302.7	2,300,412	223.28	Luhansk	18	14
Lviv Oblast	8,429.8	2,545,634	301.98	Lviv	20	9
Mykolaiv Oblast	9,497.3	1,186,452	124.93	Mykolaiv	19	5
Odessa Oblast	12,861.1	2,387,636	185.65	Odessa	26	7
Poltava Oblast	11,099.7	1,493,668	134.57	Poltava	25	5
Rivne Oblast	7,740.2	1,152,576	148.91	Rivne	16	4
Sumy Oblast	9,202.4	1,166,765	126.79	Sumy	18	7
Ternopil Oblast	5,337.1	1,086,694	203.61	Ternopil	17	1
Vinnytsia Oblast	10,236.7	1,646,250	160.82	Vinnytsia	27	6
Volyn Oblast	7,777.6	1,038,223	133.49	Lutsk	16	4
Zakarpattia Oblast	4,933.2	1,246,323	252.64	Uzhhorod	13	5
Zaporizhia Oblast	10,494.3	1,805,431	172.04	Zaporizhia	20	5
Zhytomyr Oblast	11,518.2	1,283,201	111.41	Zhytomyr	23	5

Images for kids

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  Election results of the 2015 regional parliamentarian elections

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  Map of the administrative divisions of the Ukrainian SSR from 1946–1954 shows the Izmail Oblast and Drohobych Oblast

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  Map of Ukraine with oblasts and largest cities

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  After 1935; including recently created Donetsk and Chernihiv Oblasts and border okrugs

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  Creation of additional oblasts just before World War II

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  Post-war divisions of Ukraine

See also

In Spanish: Anexo:Óblasts de Ucrania para niños