List of cities in Cherkasy Oblast

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Location of cities in Cherkasy Oblast^[1]

There are 16 populated places in Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine, that have been officially granted city status (Ukrainian: місто, romanized: misto) by the Verkhovna Rada, the country's parliament.^[2] 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.^[3][4][5] As of 5 December 2001, the date of the first and only official census in the country since independence,^[a] the most populous city in the oblast was the regional capital, Cherkasy, with a population of 295,414 people, while the least populous city was Monastyryshche, with 9,463 people.^[6][7] In 2024, following the passage of derussification laws, the city of Vatutine was renamed Bahacheve.^[8]

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 26 raions (districts) as cities of district significance, which are subordinated to the governments of the raions.^[9][10][7] On 18 July 2020, an administrative reform abolished and merged the oblast's raions and cities of regional significance into four new, expanded raions.^[3][11] The four raions that make up the oblast are Cherkasy, Uman, Zolotonosha, and Zvenyhorodka.^[12]