List of cities in Lviv Oblast

There are 44 populated places in Lviv 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, Lviv, with a population of 732,818 people, while the least populous city was Uhniv, with 974 people.^[6][7] In 2024, following the passage of derussification laws, the city of Chervonohrad was renamed Sheptytskyi.^[8] The center of the city of Lviv and two wooden churches in Drohobych and Zhovkva are also among the eight World Heritage Sites in Ukraine recognized by UNESCO.^[9]

Location of cities in Lviv Oblast^[1]

From independence in 1991 to 2020, nine cities in the oblast were designated as cities of regional significance (municipalities), which had self-government under city councils, while the oblast's remaining 35 cities were located in 20 raions (districts) as cities of district significance, which are subordinated to the governments of the raions.^[10][11][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][12] The seven raions that make up the oblast are Drohobych, Lviv, Sambir, Sheptytskyi, Stryi, Yavoriv, and Zolochiv.^[13]