List of cities in Zaporizhzhia Oblast

There are 14 populated places in Zaporizhzhia 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, Zaporizhzhia, with a population of 817,882 people, while the least populous city was Molochansk, with 7,964 people. The most recent settlement to receive city status is Enerhodar, which was granted the status by the Verkhovna Rada in 1985.

From independence in 1991 to 2020, five 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 twenty 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 five new, expanded raions. The five raions that make up the oblast are Berdiansk, Melitopol, Polohy, Vasylivka, and Zaporizhzhia.

After 24 February 2022, during Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian forces occupied three cities in Polohy Raion and all cities located in the Berdiansk, Melitopol, and Vasylivka raions. In the oblast's occupied territory, de facto Russian officials have used the same five raions as Ukraine, while Melitopol (the oblast's most populous city controlled by Russia) serves as the capital for the Russian administration. As of 3 July 2024, ten cities are occupied by Russian forces, while two frontline cities (Huliaipole and Orikhiv) have been nearly destroyed by fighting and Russian shelling. For their contributions to the country's defense during the invasion, Huliaipole and Orikhiv were awarded with the honorary title Hero City of Ukraine in 2025.

As of January 2026, Huliaipole has been captured by Russian forces.

List of cities

+ Name Name (in Ukrainian) Raion (district) Population(2022 estimates) Population(2001 census) 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. PopulationchangeBerdiansk Бердянськ Berdiansk Dniprorudne Дніпрорудне Vasylivka Enerhodar Енергодар Vasylivka Huliaipole Гуляйполе Polohy Kamianka-Dniprovska Кам'янка-Дніпровська Vasylivka Melitopol Мелітополь Melitopol Molochansk Молочанськ Polohy Orikhiv Оріхів Polohy Polohy Пологи Polohy Prymorsk Приморськ Berdiansk Tokmak Токмак Polohy Vasylivka Василівка Vasylivka Vilniansk Вільнянськ Zaporizhzhia Zaporizhzhia Запоріжжя Zaporizhzhia

List of cities in Zaporizhzhia Oblast

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