List of cities in Kharkiv Oblast

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Location of cities in Kharkiv Oblast, with green dots indicating Ukrainian-controlled cities and the red-green dots indicating the ongoing partial occupation of the cities.^[1]

There are 18 populated places in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine, that have been officially granted city status (Ukrainian: місто, romanized: misto) by the Verkhovna Rada, the country's parliament.^[2][3] 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.^[4][5][6] 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, Kharkiv, with a population of 1,470,902 people, while the least populous city was Pivdenne, with 8,516 people.^[7][8] After the enactment of decommunization laws, one city within the oblast, Slobozhanske,^[b] was renamed in 2016 from its previous name, Komsomolske, for its connection to people, places, events, and organizations associated with the Soviet Union.^[10][11][9] In 2024, following the passage of derussification laws, the cities Krasnohrad and Pervomaiskyi were renamed Berestyn and Zlatopil respectively.^[12] For their contributions to the country's defense during the Russian invasion, two cities in the oblast (Kharkiv and Kupiansk) were awarded with the honorary title Hero City of Ukraine in 2022 and 2025 respectively.^[13][14][15]

From independence in 1991 to 2020, seven 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 in 25 raions (districts) as cities of district significance, which are subordinated to the governments of the raions.^[16][17][8] On 18 July 2020, an administrative reform abolished and merged the oblast's raions and cities of regional significance into seven new, expanded raions.^[4][18] The seven raions that make up the oblast are Berestyn, Bohodukhiv, Chuhuiv, Izium, Kharkiv, Kupiansk, and Lozova.^[19]