List of cities in Zhytomyr Oblast
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There are 12 populated places in Zhytomyr 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, Zhytomyr, with a population of 284,236 people, while the least populous city was Chudniv, with 6,558 people.[6][7]
From independence in 1991 to 2020, five cities in the oblast were designated as cities of regional significance (municipalities), which had self-government under city councils, while the oblast's remaining seven cities were located amongst twenty-three raions (districts) as cities of district significance, which are subordinated to the governments of the raions.[8][9][7] On 18 July 2020, an administrative reform abolished and merged the oblast's raions and cities of regional significance into four new, expanded raions.[3][10] The four raions that make up the oblast are Berdychiv, Korosten, Zhytomyr, and Zviahel.[11]


| Name | Name (in Ukrainian)[2][b] |
Raion (district) | Population (2022 estimates)[2] |
Population (2001 census)[7] |
Population change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrushivka | Андрушівка | Berdychiv | 8,325 | 9,890 | −15.82% |
| Baranivka | Баранівка | Zviahel | 11,161 | 12,584 | −11.31% |
| Berdychiv | Бердичів | Berdychiv | 73,046 | 87,575 | −16.59% |
| Chudniv | Чуднів | Zhytomyr | 5,357 | 6,558 | −18.31% |
| Korosten | Коростень | Korosten | 61,496 | 66,669 | −7.76% |
| Korostyshiv | Коростишів | Zhytomyr | 24,129 | 26,068 | −7.44% |
| Malyn | Малин | Korosten | 25,172 | 28,113 | −10.46% |
| Olevsk | Олевськ | Korosten | 10,032 | 10,896 | −7.93% |
| Ovruch | Овруч | Korosten | 15,250 | 17,031 | −10.46% |
| Radomyshl | Радомишль | Zhytomyr | 13,685 | 15,326 | −10.71% |
| Zhytomyr | Житомир | Zhytomyr | 261,624 | 284,236 | −7.96% |
| Zviahel | Звягель | Zviahel | 55,086 | 56,259 | −2.08% |