There are 16 populated places in Poltava 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, Poltava, with a population of 317,998 people, while the least populous city was Zavodske, with 9,024 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. After the enactment of decommunization laws, two cities within the oblast were renamed in 2016 for their former names' connection to people, places, events, and organizations associated with the Soviet Union. The renamed cities Horishni Plavni and Zavodske were previously named Komsomolsk and Chervonozavodske, respectively.

From independence in 1991 to 2020, six cities in the oblast were designated as cities of regional significance (municipalities), which had self-government under city councils, while the oblast's remaining 10 cities were located amongst 24 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 Kremenchuk, Lubny, Myrhorod, and Poltava.

List of cities

+ Name Name(in Ukrainian) Raion (district) Population(2022 estimates) Population(2001 census) PopulationchangeHadiach Гадяч Myrhorod Hlobyne Глобине Kremenchuk Horishni Plavni Горішні Плавні Kremenchuk Hrebinka Гребінка Lubny Karlivka Карлівка Poltava Khorol Хорол Lubny Kobeliaky Кобеляки Poltava Kremenchuk Кременчук Kremenchuk Lokhvytsia Лохвиця Myrhorod Lubny Лубни Lubny Myrhorod Миргород Myrhorod Poltava Полтава Poltava Pyriatyn Пирятин Lubny Reshetylivka Решетилівка Poltava Zavodske Заводське Myrhorod Zinkiv Зіньків Poltava

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