List of cities in Chernivtsi Oblast
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There are 11 populated places in Chernivtsi 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, Chernivtsi, with a population of 240,621 people, while the least populous city was Hertsa, with 2,068 people.[6][7] The Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans, a historical building complex recognized as one of Ukraine's eight World Heritage Sites and currently serving as part of Chernivtsi University, is located in Chernivtsi.[8]
From independence in 1991 to 2020, two 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 eleven 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 three new, expanded raions.[3][11] The three raions that make up the oblast are Chernivtsi, Dnistrovskyi, and Vyzhnytsia.[12]


| Name | Name (in Ukrainian)[2][b] |
Raion (district) | Population (2022 estimates)[2] |
Population (2001 census)[7] |
Population change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chernivtsi | Чернівці | Chernivtsi | 264,298 | 240,621 | +9.84% |
| Hertsa | Герца | Chernivtsi | 2,097 | 2,068 | +1.40% |
| Kitsman | Кіцмань | Chernivtsi | 6,049 | 7,608 | −20.49% |
| Khotyn | Хотин | Dnistrovskyi | 8,936 | 11,216 | −20.33% |
| Novodnistrovsk | Новодністровськ | Dnistrovskyi | 10,463 | 10,342 | +1.17% |
| Novoselytsia | Новоселиця | Chernivtsi | 7,399 | 8,400 | −11.92% |
| Sokyriany | Сокиряни | Dnistrovskyi | 8,547 | 10,258 | −16.68% |
| Storozhynets | Сторожинець | Chernivtsi | 14,077 | 14,693 | −4.19% |
| Vashkivtsi | Вашківці | Vyzhnytsia | 5,215 | 5,987 | −12.89% |
| Vyzhnytsia | Вижниця | Vyzhnytsia | 3,803 | 5,021 | −24.26% |
| Zastavna | Заставна | Chernivtsi | 7,750 | 8,866 | −12.59% |