List of cities in Chernivtsi Oblast

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Location of cities in Chernivtsi Oblast^[1]

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]