Oblasts of Ukraine

Oblasts of Ukraine
Sea of Azov Black Sea Dnieper • Chernihiv Chernivtsi Cherkasy Dnipropetrovsk Donetsk Ivan.-Fr. Kharkiv Kherson Kyiv Kirovohrad Khmel. Luhansk Lviv Mykolaiv Odesa Poltava Rivne Sumy Ternopil Vinnytsia Volyn Zakarpattia Zaporizhzhia Zhytomyr •Sevastopol Crimea Russia Belarus Poland Slov. Hung. Romania Moldova Serb.
Category	First-level subdivision of a unitary state
Location	Ukraine
Created	27 February 1932 (93 years ago) (1932-02-27)
Number	24 (as of 1991)
Populations	897,000 (Chernivtsi) to 4,157,000 (Donetsk)
Areas	8,100 km2 (3,126 sq mi) (Chernivtsi) to 33,300 km2 (12,860 sq mi) (Odesa)
Government	Oblast State Administration, Oblast Council
Subdivisions	136 raions (districts)[nb 1]

An oblast (Ukrainian: область, romanized: oblast, pronounced [ˈɔblɐsʲtʲ] ^ⓘ; pl. області, oblasti), sometimes translated as region or province, is the main type of first-level administrative division of Ukraine. The country's territory is divided into 24 oblasts, as well as one autonomous republic and two cities with special status.

As Ukraine is a unitary state, oblasts do not have much legal scope of competence other than that which is established in the Ukrainian Constitution and devolved by law. Articles 140–146 of Chapter XI of the constitution deal directly with local authorities and their competence.

Oblasts are divided into raions, with each oblast having between three and eight raions following the July 2020 reform.^[1]

Cite error: There are <ref group=nb> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=nb}} template (see the help page).