Ukraine Map with Regions

Ukraine has 27 top-level regions: 24 oblasts, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, and two cities with special status, Kyiv and Sevastopol. That is the count shown on this map. Some simplified sources say Ukraine has 24 regions and then list Crimea, Kyiv and Sevastopol separately, which describes the same territory in a different way rather than a different division. Each oblast is normally named after its administrative center, so Poltava Oblast is run from Poltava and Rivne Oblast from Rivne. Kyiv is unusual because it serves as the national capital and as a region in its own right.

Odessa Oblast is Ukraine's largest region by area at 33,310 km² (12,868 sq mi), stretching along the northwestern Black Sea coast with the port city of Odesa as its center. The smallest unit sits at the other end of the scale: the city of Kyiv covers 839 km² (324 sq mi), about a fortieth of Odessa Oblast, with Sevastopol next at 864 km² (333 sq mi). Because two of the 27 units are municipal territories rather than provinces, area comparisons across Ukraine mix very large oblasts with two small urban regions. Kyiv City is likewise a compact unit surrounded by, but not part of, Kyiv Oblast.

Donetsk Oblast is Ukraine's most populous region, with 4,059,372 residents in the state estimate of 1 January 2022, centered on the city of Donetsk in the Donbas industrial belt. Kyiv City is the largest single urban center in the country and counts as a separate region. The least populated unit is Sevastopol, at about 386,000 people in the last Ukrainian estimate from 2014 — state statistics have not covered Crimea since the occupation. These figures predate much of the wartime displacement, so the number of people actually living in the eastern and southern oblasts today differs from the registered totals. Administrative boundaries on the map stay fixed regardless of population movement.

An oblast is Ukraine's standard province-level region, with an administrative center and an elected regional council. Kyiv and Sevastopol belong to no oblast at all. They are cities with special status, governed under separate national legislation and counted as top-level units alongside the 24 oblasts. Crimea forms a third category, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, which holds recognized autonomy and has Simferopol as its capital. Together that makes the 27 regions drawn on this map: 24 oblasts, 1 autonomous republic and 2 special-status cities. Kyiv City sits inside the ring of Kyiv Oblast without being part of it.

Crimea is internationally recognized as part of Ukraine. Russia has controlled the peninsula since 2014, yet Ukraine and most governments worldwide continue to treat the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol as Ukrainian regions, and the Constitution of Ukraine defines them that way. This map follows the recognized administrative division, so Crimea and Sevastopol appear as two of the 27 regions with their pre-2014 outlines. Legal status and de facto control are separate matters. A regions map shows the legal division, which is why nothing here reflects the occupation.

Donbas is short for the Donets Coal Basin, the industrial area covering Donetsk Oblast and Luhansk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. The two oblasts get grouped in reporting because they share coal mining, heavy metallurgy and, since 2014, the same conflict history. On this map they remain what they are administratively: two separate regions, with Donetsk Oblast the country's most populous at 4,059,372 people (1 January 2022 estimate) and Luhansk Oblast bordering it to the northeast. No official boundary, council or capital corresponds to the Donbas as a whole, so it never appears as a unit on an administrative map.

Ukraine's regional boundaries did not change after 2014 or after the full-scale invasion in 2022. What shifted was control. Russia took Crimea and Sevastopol in 2014 and occupied parts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts from 2022. The oblast-level structure is enumerated in the 1996 Constitution of Ukraine and has held steady since independence in 1991, so the 27 units drawn here match the ones in place at independence. If your project needs to show occupied territory, treat it as a separate layer or assign values to the affected regions and let the shading carry that information.

Kyiv, Odesa, Lviv, Kharkiv and Dnipro are romanized from Ukrainian, while Kiev, Odessa, Lvov and Kharkov come through Russian. Ukraine's official transliteration standard, adopted in 2010, produces Kyiv, and international media and institutions shifted to it broadly from 2018 onward. Region names carry the same split: Odesa Oblast and Odessa Oblast mean one region, listed here at 33,310 km² (12,868 sq mi). Dnipropetrovsk Oblast kept its name even though its center Dnipropetrovsk became Dnipro in 2016. When you import data, check that your spelling of each region matches the labels on the map.

Ukraine region maps live entirely in the Ultimaps editor, which opens in the browser and requires no account on the free tier. Coloring from data is quickest: paste two columns, region names beside their figures, and the 27 shapes take on graduated shading. Manual coloring also works, one unit at a time — Lviv Oblast, Poltava Oblast or any other. Palette, background, label wording, typeface and boundary weight are all configured in their own places. To flag a city, drop a pin over Kyiv, Kharkiv or Odesa, or type coordinates for anywhere else, then add a caption. Exporting produces a PNG, PDF or SVG file, whichever you select.