Ukraine is the largest country entirely located in Europe. Its area is 603,700 km², and the territory covers the southwest of the East European Plain, part of the Eastern Carpathians and the Crimean Mountains.
Read about what administrative-territorial units the territory of Ukraine is divided into in the ICTV Facts material.
How many regions are there in Ukraine
According to the Constitution of Ukraine, its territory consists of 24 regions, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and two cities with a special status – the capital of the state, Kyiv and Sevastopol.
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Despite the annexation of Crimea and Donbass, as well as the occupation of part of the Ukrainian lands in the East and South of the country as a result of a full-scale invasion by Russia, these territories are still legally part of Ukraine.
Regions of Ukraine are divided into districts (from 3 to 8). In each region and district there is a settlement that serves as the capital of the territorial unit, where the authorities of regional and district significance are located.
The smallest region of Ukraine in terms of area is Chernivtsi (8,097 km2), and the largest is Odessa (33,310 km2).
List of regions of Ukraine
The list of regions of Ukraine includes 25 administrative-territorial units. Here is a list of them in alphabetical order:
- Autonomous Republic of Crimea, capital – Simferopol;
- Vinnitsa, regional center – Vinnitsa;
- Volynskaya, regional center – Lutsk;
- Dnepropetrovsk, regional center – Dnepr;
- Donetsk, regional center – Donetsk;
- Zhitomir, regional center – Zhitomir;
- Zakarpattia, regional center – Uzhgorod;
- Zaporozhye, regional center – Zaporozhye;
- Ivano-Frankivsk, regional center – Ivano-Frankivsk;
- Kyiv, regional center – Kyiv;
- Kirovograd, regional center – Kropyvnytskyi;
- Lugansk, regional center – Lugansk;
- Lviv, regional center – Lviv;
- Nikolaevskaya, regional center – Nikolaev;
- Odessa, regional center – Odessa;
- Poltava, regional center – Poltava;
- Rivne, regional center – Rivne;
- Sumskaya, regional center – Sumy;
- Ternopil, regional center – Ternopil;
- Kharkovskaya, regional center – Kharkov;
- Kherson, regional center – Kherson;
- Khmelnitskaya, regional center – Khmelnitsky;
- Cherkasy, regional center – Cherkasy;
- Chernivtsi, regional center – Chernivtsi;
- Chernigovskaya, regional center – Chernigov.
