Cities of Ukraine

In Ukraine as of January 1, 2016 there were 460 cities, 885 settlements of city type and 28 385 rural settlements 

The capital and the biggest city of Ukraine on the population — Kiev.

      During the period from 2001 to 2012 the number of million-strong cities on the number of the cash population in the country was reduced from five (Kiev, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Odessa, Donetsk) to three (Kiev, Kharkiv, Odessa), and on the number of resident population — to two (Kiev, Kharkiv).


Most of all cities are in Donetsk (52), Lviv (44) and the Luhansk (37) regions.

More than 69% of the population (2015) [3][4] live in city settlements (the cities and пгт).

About 17 million people (37% of residents of the country) live in 16 largest city agglomerations of Ukraine.

1. Vinnytsia
2. Lutsk
3.  Dnieper
4. Donetsk
5. Zhytomyr
6. Uzhhorod
7. Zaporizhia
8.  Ivano-Frankivsk
9. Kiev
10.  Kropivnitsky
11.  Luhansk
12.  Lviv
13. Nikolaev
14. Odessa
15. Poltava
16.  Rovno
17.  Sumy
18. Ternopil
19.  Kharkiv
20.  Kherson
21.  Khmelnytskyi
22. Cherkasy
23. Chernihiv
24. Chernivtsi
25.  Temporarily
26. occupied territory: Sevastopol Simferopol