List of cities in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

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Location of cities in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast^[1]

There are 20 populated places in Dnipropetrovsk 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, Dnipro, with a population of 1,080,846 people, while the least populous city was Pereshchepyne, with 10,041 people.^[6][7] After the enactment of decommunization laws, three cities within the oblast, including the regional capital, were renamed in 2016 for their former names' connection to people, places, events, and organizations associated with the Soviet Union.^[8][9] The renamed cities Dnipro, Kamianske, and Pokrov were previously named Dnipropetrovsk, Dniprodzerzhynsk, and Ordzhonikidze, respectively.^[10] In 2024–2025, following the passage of derussification laws, the cities Novomoskovsk, Pershotravensk, and Pidhorodne were renamed Samar, Shakhtarske, and Pidhorodnie respectively.^[11][12] For their contributions to the country's defense during the Russian invasion, three cities in the oblast (Marhanets, Nikopol, and Pavlohrad) were awarded with the honorary title Hero City of Ukraine in 2025.^[13]

From independence in 1991 to 2020, 13 cities in the oblast were designated as cities of regional significance (municipalities), which had self-government under city councils, while the oblast's remaining 7 cities were located in 22 raions (districts) as cities of district significance, which are subordinated to the governments of the raions.^[14][15][7] On 18 July 2020, an administrative reform abolished and merged the oblast's raions and cities of regional significance into seven new, expanded raions.^[3][16] The seven raions that make up the oblast are Dnipro, Kamianske, Kryvyi Rih, Nikopol, Pavlohrad, Samar, and Synelnykove.^[17]