List of Ukrainian oblasts and territories by population

This is a list of all Ukrainian oblasts and territories, in order of descending population (in 2012).[1] Note that since the War in Donbass started in the spring of 2014 1.5 million people from Donetsk Oblast and Luhansk Oblast have either fled to Russia or to other parts of Ukraine.[2][3] Since March 2014 Crimea has been disputed between Russia and Ukraine, with Russia signing a treaty of accession on 18 March 2014 with the self-declared independent Republic of Crimea, absorbing it into the Russian Federation, though this is not recognised by Ukraine or most of the international community.[4]

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Population as of November 1st 2015

Ranking	Prefecture	Population	Urban population	Rural population
1	Donetsk Oblast[5]	4,387,702	3,973,317	414,385
2	Dnipropetrovsk Oblast[6]	3,258,705	2,724,872	533,833
3	Kyiv (Municipality)[7]	2,900,920	2,900,920	-N/A-
4	Kharkiv Oblast[8]	2,720,342	2,193,027	527,315
5	Lviv Oblast[9]	2,535,476	1,545,628	989,848
6	Odessa Oblast[10]	2,387,282	1,592,602	794,680
7	Luhansk Oblast[5]	2,263,676	1,963,808	299,868
8	Crimea (Autonomous Republic)[5]	1,963,770	1,231,648	732,122
9	Zaporizhia Oblast[11]	1,755,663	1,355,126	400,537
10	Kyiv Oblast[12]	1,731,673	1,077,600	654,073
11	Vinnytsia Oblast[13]	1,604,270	813,906	790,364
12	Poltava Oblast[14]	1,440,684	892,177	548,507
13	Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast[15]	1,382,721	603,858	778,863
14	Khmelnytskyi Oblast[16]	1,296,103	729,963	566,140
15	Zakarpattia Oblast[17]	1,259,497	466,985	792,512
16	Zhytomyr Oblast[18]	1,249,225	734,462	514,763
17	Cherkasy Oblast[19]	1,246,166	707,539	538,627
18	Rivne Oblast[20]	1,162,049	553,247	608,802
19	Mykolaiv Oblast[21]	1,159,634	791,227	368,407
20	Sumy Oblast[22]	1,115,051	764,436	350,615
21	Ternopil Oblast[23]	1,066,523	475,443	591,080
22	Kherson Oblast[24]	1,063,803	651,241	412,562
23	Chernihiv Oblast[25]	1,047,023	676,001	371,022
24	Volyn Oblast[26]	1,042,855	545,568	497,287
25	Kirovohrad Oblast[27]	974,724	612,237	362,487
26	Chernivtsi Oblast[28]	910,001	391,491	518,510
27	Sevastopol (Municipality)[5]	381,685	358,029	23,656

References

1. "Ukraine Census, population as of 1st August 2012". State Statistics Committee of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 12 March 2010. Retrieved 20 June 2009.
2. Donetsk, Luhansk: The 'People's Republics' one year on, Deutsche Welle (11 May 2015)
3. Between War and Peace - Life Near the Front in Eastern Ukraine (between minutes 23 and 24 into the documentary), Deutsche Welle (18 May 2015)
4. Alec Luhn (18 March 2014). "Red Square rally hails Vladimir Putin after Crimea accession". The Guardian. Moscow. Retrieved 24 December 2014.
5. Due to war and/or occupation statistical information cannot be gathered and therefore is outdated.
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