There are 11 populated places in Rivne 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, Rivne, with a population of 248,813 people, while the least populous city was Korets, with 8,649 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. Following the passing of decommunization laws, one city within the oblast, Varash, was renamed in 2016 from its previous name, Kuznetsovsk, for its connection with people, places, events, and organizations associated with the Soviet Union.
From independence in 1991 to 2020, four cities in the oblast were designated as cities of regional significance (municipalities), which had self-government under city councils, while the oblast's remaining seven cities were located in sixteen 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 four new, expanded raions. The four raions that make up the oblast are Dubno, Rivne, Sarny, and Varash.
List of cities
+ Name Name(in Ukrainian) Raion (district) Population(2022 estimates) Population(2001 census) PopulationchangeBerezne Березне Rivne Dubno Дубно Dubno Dubrovytsia Дубровиця Sarny Korets Корець Rivne Kostopil Костопіль Rivne Ostroh Острог Rivne Radyvyliv Радивилів Dubno Rivne Рівне Rivne Sarny Сарни Sarny Varash Вараш Varash Zdolbuniv Здолбунів Rivne
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