List of Ukrainian oblasts and territories by population

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This is a list of all Ukrainian oblasts and territories, in order of descending population (in 2012). [1] Note that since the war in Donbas started in the spring of 2014, 1,5 million people from Donetsk Oblast and Luhansk Oblast have either fled to Russia or to other parts of Ukraine. [2] [3] Since March 2014 Crimea and Sevastopol have been disputed between Russia and Ukraine, with Russia signing a treaty of accession on 18 March 2014 with the self-declared independent Republic of Crimea, absorbing it into the Russian Federation, though this is not recognised by Ukraine or most of the international community. [4]

Population as of November 1st 2015

RankingPrefecturePopulationUrban populationRural population
1 Donetsk Oblast [5] 4,387,7023,973,317414,385
2 Dnipropetrovsk Oblast [6] 3,258,7052,724,872533,833
3 Kyiv [7] 2,900,9202,900,920N/A
4 Kharkiv Oblast [8] 2,720,3422,193,027527,315
5 Lviv Oblast [9] 2,535,4761,545,628989,848
6 Odesa Oblast [10] 2,387,2821,592,602794,680
7 Luhansk Oblast [5] 2,263,6761,963,808299,868
8 Autonomous Republic of Crimea [5] 1,963,7701,231,648732,122
9 Zaporizhzhia Oblast [11] 1,755,6631,355,126400,537
10 Kyiv Oblast [12] 1,731,6731,077,600654,073
11 Vinnytsia Oblast [13] 1,604,270813,906790,364
12 Poltava Oblast [14] 1,440,684892,177548,507
13 Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast [15] 1,382,721603,858778,863
14 Khmelnytskyi Oblast [16] 1,296,103729,963566,140
15 Zakarpattia Oblast [17] 1,259,497466,985792,512
16 Zhytomyr Oblast [18] 1,249,225734,462514,763
17 Cherkasy Oblast [19] 1,246,166707,539538,627
18 Rivne Oblast [20] 1,162,049553,247608,802
19 Mykolaiv Oblast [21] 1,159,634791,227368,407
20 Sumy Oblast [18] 1,115,051764,436350,615
21 Ternopil Oblast [22] 1,066,523475,443591,080
22 Kherson Oblast [23] 1,063,803651,241412,562
23 Chernihiv Oblast [24] 1,047,023676,001371,022
24 Volyn Oblast [25] 1,042,855545,568497,287
25 Kirovohrad Oblast [26] 974,724612,237362,487
26 Chernivtsi Oblast [27] 910,001391,491518,510
27 Sevastopol 509,992509,992N/A

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