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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 ...
An oblast in Ukraine, sometimes translated as region or province, is the main type of first-level administrative division of the country. Ukraine is a unitary state, thus the oblasts do not have much legal scope of competence other than that which is established in the Ukrainian Constitution and by law. Articles 140–146 of Chapter XI of the ...
In Ukraine, an oblast (Ukrainian: область [ˈɔblɐsʲtʲ] ⓘ; in English called a province or region) refers to one of the country's 24 primary administrative units. Since Ukraine is a unitary state , the provinces (or regions) do not have much legal scope of competence other than that which is established in the Ukrainian Constitution ...
Almost a third of the country's population lives in the region, which includes several cities with population of around a million. Within Ukraine, the region is the most highly urbanized, particularly portions of central Kharkiv Oblast, south-western Luhansk Oblast, central, northern and eastern areas of Donetsk Oblast.
Ukraine is divided into twenty-four regions, called oblasts, one autonomous republic, and two cities with special status. The conventions that govern the naming of articles on these subdivisions are as follows: Most oblasts are named after their administrative centres, e.g. Donetsk Oblast for the oblast with its centre in the city of Donetsk.
Most of Ukraine's oblasts are named after their capital cities, officially called "oblast centers" (Ukrainian: обласний центр, translit. oblasnyi tsentr).The name of each oblast is a relative adjective, formed by adding a feminine suffix to the name of respective center city: Kharkiv is the center of the Kharkivs’ka oblast’ (Kharkiv Oblast).
Local government in Ukraine (Ukrainian: Місцева влада, romanized: Mistseva vlada) consists of two systems based on the administrative divisions of Ukraine. [1] There are 24 oblasts , one autonomous republic , and two cities with special status , with each region further divided into raions (districts) and then hromadas .
Lviv Oblast: 7.7 5 Kyiv Oblast: 7.6 6 Donetsk Oblast: 7.3 7 Odesa Oblast: 7.0 8 Poltava Oblast: 6.9 9 Zaporizhzhia Oblast: 5.9 10 Vinnytsia Oblast: 4.5 11 Cherkasy Oblast: 3.4 12 Mykolaiv Oblast: 3.2 13 Khmelnytskyi Oblast: 3.1 14 Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast: 3.1 15 Zhytomyr Oblast: 3.0 16 Chernihiv Oblast: 2.9 17 Sumy Oblast: 2.7 18 Kirovohrad Oblast