Subdivisions of Ukraine Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

General Scheme of Administrative Subdivision

Those 3 types of national-level units are further subdivided into raions (Ukrainian singular: район, raion). Urban settlements (Ukrainian singular: місто, misto) are subordinated to either the central government, oblast' or raion, depending on their population size and socioeconomic importance (see also: List of cities in Ukraine). The raions (districts) are a constituent part of oblasts, but also of large urban settlements (i.e. cities and megacities). The typical misto may be considered to be a city, not a town (compare to City status in the United Kingdom). However, the misto's subordination to either oblast' or raion should be taken into account, especially in the political sense. There are also a few lowest-level administrative units, which may be generally called a villages.

Notes

1. Romanized using Ukrainian National standard. Details at Romanization of Ukrainian.
2. Province is more precise because region may also refer to supranational geographic entity.
3. Region is ambiguous since it usually refers to larger national-level units; area is inaccurate.

Most of Ukraine's oblast's (provinces) are named after their capital cities, officially called "centers" (Ukrainian singular: обласний центр, oblasnyi tsentr). The name of each oblast' is a relative adjective, formed by adding a feminine suffix to the name of respective center city. E.g. Poltava is a center of Poltavs'ka oblast'.

Exceptions to this rule include:

• Two oblast's, Volyns'ka and Zakarpats'ka, which retain the names of their respective historical regions (see Volyn and Transcarpathia), while their capitals are Luts'k and Uzhhorod, respectively.

• Kyiv,which is a municipality independent of the surrounding Kyivs'ka oblast', but also the center of that oblast' (administrative bodies of the oblast' are situated inside the city).

Autonomous Republic of Crimea

The Autonomous Republic of Crimea (Ukrainian: Автономна Республіка Крим, Avtonomna Respublika Krym), formerly termed the Kryms'ka oblast' of the Ukrainian SSR, is, geographically, a Crimean peninsula in the south of Ukraine. Its capital is Simferopol.

Municipalities

Administrative subdivision: Overview

The above-mentioned system reflects Ukraine's status as a unitary state (as stated in the country's constitution) with unified legal and administrative regime for each unit. However, experts agree that the wide autonomy of Crimea, the cultural and historical differences between provinces, combined with a lack of local democracy and order, diminish the formal unity of Ukraine significantly. Also, the territorial, demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of some oblast's (such as of Donets'ka and Chernivets'ka) are problematic for Ukraines's unity as well. All this provides a permanent basis for both slowed integration and local underdevelopment as well. So well-grounded reasons exist for reforming Ukraine's territorial structure, including: the integration of a few small oblast's, the broadening of oblast' and city authority, and the narrowing if the autonomy of the Crimean peninisula, etc.

For an understanding of the cultural and socioeconomic differences within the country, a knowledge of the is no less crucial than studying above-mentioned administrative structure.

See also

• List of cities in Ukraine
• History of Ukraine
• Geography of Ukraine
• Culture of Ukraine
• Politics of Ukraine
• Economy of Ukraine
• Demographics of Ukraine
• Transportation in Ukraine
• Tourism in Ukraine
• Historical regions of Central Europe
• Autonomous region

• List of raions - sub-subdivisions of oblast's

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