There are 11 populated places in Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine, that have been officially granted city status () by the Verkhovna Rada, the country's parliament. Settlements with more than 10,000 people are eligible for city status, although the status is typically also granted to settlements of historical or regional importance. As of 5 December 2001, the date of the first and only official census in the country since independence, the most populous city in the oblast was the regional capital, Chernivtsi, with a population of 240,621 people, while the least populous city was Hertsa, with 2,068 people. To access the statistics, scroll down to the section titled "Кількість та територіальне розміщення населення України" (). Then, click on the linked text "Публікація у електронному вигляді" (). This will download the statistics as a RAR file from which it can be accessed using RAR file converters such as 7-Zip. The Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans, a historical building complex recognized as one of Ukraine's eight World Heritage Sites and currently serving as part of Chernivtsi University, is located in Chernivtsi.

From independence in 1991 to 2020, two cities in the oblast were designated as cities of regional significance (municipalities), which had self-government under city councils, while the oblast's remaining nine cities were located amongst eleven raions (districts) as cities of district significance, which are subordinated to the governments of the raions. On 18 July 2020, an administrative reform abolished and merged the oblast's raions and cities of regional significance into three new, expanded raions. The three raions that make up the oblast are Chernivtsi, Dniester, and Vyzhnytsia.

List of cities

+ Name Name(in Ukrainian) Raion (district) Population(2022 estimates) Population(2001 census) PopulationchangeChernivtsi Чернівці Chernivtsi Hertsa Герца Chernivtsi Kitsman Кіцмань Chernivtsi Khotyn Хотин Dniester Novodnistrovsk Новодністровськ Dniester Novoselytsia Новоселиця Chernivtsi Sokyriany Сокиряни Dniester Storozhynets Сторожинець Chernivtsi Vashkivtsi Вашківці Vyzhnytsia Vyzhnytsia Вижниця Vyzhnytsia Zastavna Заставна Chernivtsi

See also List of cities in Ukraine

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References

External links

2001 Ukrainian census, Population Structure

Regions of Ukraine and their composition