There are 15 populated places in Sumy 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, Sumy, with a population of 293,141 people, while the least populous city was Khutir-Mykhailivskyi, with 5,726 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. In 2024, following the passage of derussification laws, the city of Druzhba was renamed Khutir-Mykhailivskyi. For their contributions to the country's defense during the Russian invasion, three cities in the oblast were awarded with the honorary title Hero City of Ukraine: Okhtyrka in 2022, and Sumy and Trostianets in 2025.
From independence in 1991 to 2020, seven cities in the oblast were designated as cities of regional significance (municipalities), which had self-government under city councils, while the oblast's remaining eight cities were located amongst seventeen 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 Konotop, Okhtyrka, Romny, Shostka, and Sumy.
List of cities
+ Name Name(in Ukrainian) Raion (district) Population(2022 estimates) Population(2001 census) PopulationchangeBilopillia Білопілля Sumy Buryn Буринь Konotop Hlukhiv Глухів Shostka Khutir-Mykhailivskyi Хутір-Михайлівський Shostka Konotop Конотоп Konotop Krolevets Кролевець Konotop Lebedyn Лебедин Sumy Okhtyrka Охтирка Okhtyrka Putyvl Путивль Konotop Romny Ромни Romny Seredyna-Buda Середина-Буда Shostka Shostka Шостка Shostka Sumy Суми Sumy Trostianets Тростянець Okhtyrka Vorozhba Ворожба Sumy
See also List of cities in Ukraine
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External links
2001 Ukrainian census, Population Structure
Regions of Ukraine and their composition