List of cities in Sumy Oblast

There are 15 populated places in Sumy 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, Sumy, with a population of 293,141 people, while the least populous city was Khutir-Mykhailivskyi, with 5,726 people.^[6][7] In 2024, following the passage of derussification laws, the city of Druzhba was renamed Khutir-Mykhailivskyi.^[8] For their contributions to the country's defense during the Russian invasion, three cities in the oblast were awarded with the honorary title Hero City of Ukraine: Okhtyrka in 2022, and Sumy and Trostianets in 2025.^[9][10][11]

Location of cities in Sumy Oblast^[1]

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 eight cities were located amongst seventeen raions (districts) as cities of district significance, which are subordinated to the governments of the raions.^[12][13][7] On 18 July 2020, an administrative reform abolished and merged the oblast's raions and cities of regional significance into five new, expanded raions.^[3][14] The five raions that make up the oblast are Konotop, Okhtyrka, Romny, Shostka, and Sumy.^[15]