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'''Administrative divisions development in Ukraine''' reviews the history of changes in the administrative divisions of [[Ukraine]], in chronological order.

== Russian Empire and Ukrainian People's Republic ==
{{Main|Administrative divisions of Ukraine (1918–1925)}}
The Russian Empire had acquired much of the territory inhabited by Ukrainians between the mid 17th and early 19th centuries, which was organized into nine Ukrainian governorates: [[Chernihiv Governorate|Chernigov]] (Chernihiv in Ukrainian), [[Yekaterinoslav Governorate|Yekaterinoslav]] (Katerynoslav), [[Kiev Governorate|Kiev]] (Kyiv), [[Kharkov Governorate|Kharkov]] (Kharkiv), [[Kherson Governorate|Kherson]], [[Podolia Governorate|Podolia]] (Podillia), [[Poltava Governorate|Poltava]], [[Volhynian Governorate|Volhynia]] (Volyn), and the mainland part of [[Taurida Governorate|Taurida]] (or Tavriia, without the Crimean peninsula). Additional lands annexed from Poland in 1815 were organized into the [[Kholm Governorate (Russian Empire)|Kholm governorate]] in 1912.<ref name=":03">{{Cite book |last=Kohut |first=Zenon E. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57002343 |title=Historical dictionary of Ukraine |last2=Nebesio |first2=Bohdan Y. |last3=Yurkevich |first3=Myroslav |date=2005 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |others=Bohdan Y. Nebesio, Myroslav Yurkevich |isbn=0-8108-5387-6 |location=Lanham, Md. |chapter=Administrative Divisions of Ukraine |oclc=57002343}}</ref>

After the events of 1917, which led to the [[Ukrainian People's Republic]] (UNR) to declare its independence, these governorates became subdivisions of the UNR, which also annexed Ukrainian-inhabited parts of [[Mogilev Governorate|Mogilev]] (Mahiliou), [[Kursk Governorate|Kursk]], [[Voronezh Governorate|Voronezh]], and [[Minsk Governorate|Minsk]] governorates in 1918.<ref name=":03" /><ref name=":13">{{Cite book |last=Zadorozhnii |first=Oleksandr |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/973559701 |title=International law in the relations of Ukraine and the Russian Federation |date=2016 |publisher=Ukrainian Association of International Law |isbn=978-617-684-146-3 |location=Kyiv |pages=54, 60 |oclc=973559701}}</ref> By the end of the [[Soviet–Ukrainian War]] in 1920, the Bolsheviks had made them part of the [[Ukrainian SSR]].<ref name=":13" /> Soviet Ukraine was reorganized into 12 governorates, which were reduced to nine in 1922 upon the [[Soviet Union]]'s founding, and then replaced with [[Okruhas of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|okruhas]] in 1925.<ref name=":03" />

The [[West Ukrainian People's Republic]] in former Austro-Hungarian Empire territory was not subdivided into governorates, and would be annexed by the [[Second Polish Republic]] from 1920 until the [[Soviet invasion of Poland|Soviet invasion of 1939]].

==Overview of Soviet Ukraine (1921–91)==
{{main|Administrative divisions of the Ukrainian SSR}}
During the existence of the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Soviet Ukraine its administration division went through three changes.{{cn|date=July 2022}}
* [[Administrative divisions of Ukraine (1918-1925)|governorate]], 1919–1925
**[[Powiat|povit]] (county)
***[[volost]]
* [[Administrative division of Ukraine (1918)|zemlia]], 1918, not fully realized territorial administrative reform
* [[Administrative divisions of Ukraine (1925-1936)|subdistrict]], 1925-1936
**[[Okruhas of Ukraine|okruha]] (district)
***[[Raions of Ukraine|raion]]
* oblast, 1936–1991
** raion and district ([[Okrugs of the Ukrainian SSR|border okrug]])

Also there existed national raions and national communities (selsoviets). In Ukraine also was established the Moldavian ASSR{{clarify|ASSR?|date=July 2022}} and later{{when|date=July 2022}} also included Crimean ASSR.

== National raions of Ukraine (1920s-1930s) ==

{{Main|National districts of the Soviet Union}}

List of known [[national districts of the Soviet Union|nationality-based raions]] of Ukraine in the 1920s and '30s:

===Bulgarians===
* [[Blahoieve Raion]] (centered in [[Velykyi Buialyk]]), today part of [[Berezivka Raion]] ([[Odesa Oblast]])<ref name=NationalRaions>{{Cite web |title=НАЦІОНАЛЬНЕ АДМІНІСТРАТИВНО-ТЕРИТОРІАЛЬНЕ БУДІВНИЦТВО В УСРР/УРСР 1924–1940 |url=http://resource.history.org.ua/cgi-bin/eiu/history.exe?Z21ID=&I21DBN=DOP&P21DBN=EIU&S21STN=1&S21REF=10&S21FMT=eiu_all&C21COM=S&S21CNR=20&S21P01=0&S21P02=0&S21P03=TRN=&S21COLORTERMS=0&S21STR=Natsionalni_rajony |access-date=2023-12-10 |website=resource.history.org.ua}}</ref>
* {{ill|Kolarivka Raion|uk|Коларівський район}} (centered in [[Sofiivka (Kolariv rural hromada)|Sofiivka]]), today part of [[Berdiansk Raion]], [[Zaporizhzhia Oblast]]<ref name=NationalRaions/>
* [[Vilshanka Raion]] (centered in [[Vilshanka]]), today part of [[Holovanivsk Raion]], [[Kirovohrad Oblast]]<ref name=NationalRaions/>

===Greeks===
* Velykyi Yanisol Raion ([[Velyka Novosilka|Velykyi Yanisol]]), today part of similar raion [[Velyka Novosilka Raion]] ([[Donetsk Oblast]])
* Sartana Raion ([[Sartana (Mariupol)|Sartana]]), today part of [[Kalmiuskyi District]] of [[Mariupol]]
* Manhush Raion ([[Manhush, Donetsk Oblast|Manhush]]), today part of [[Manhush Raion]] ([[Donetsk Oblast]])

===Jews===
* Kalindorf Raion ([[Kalyninske (Velyka Oleksandrivka Raion)|Kalinindorf]]) (1927-1941), today part of [[Velyka Oleksandrivka Raion]] ([[Kherson Oblast]])
* Novozlatopil Raion ([[Novozlatopil]]) (1929-1941), today part of [[Polohy Raion]] ([[Zaporizhzhia Oblast]])
* Stalindorf Raion ([[Zhovtneve, Sofiivka Raion|Stalindorf]]) (1931-1941), today part of [[Sofiivka Raion]] ([[Dnipropetrovsk Oblast]])
;Part of RSFSR then
* Larindorf Raion ([[Pervomaiske (Crimea)|Larindorf]]) (1935-1939), today [[Pervomayskiy Raion, Crimea|Pervomayske Raion]] ([[Crimea]])
* Fraidorf Raion ([[Novoselivske (Crimea)|Fraidorf]]) (1930-1939), today part of [[Rozdolne Raion]] ([[Crimea]])

===Crimean Tatars===
;Part of RSFSR{{clarify|RSFSR?|date=July 2022}} then
* [[Alushta municipality]] (1930-1944)
* [[Balaklava Raion]] (1930-1944)
* [[Bakhchisaray Raion]] (1930-1944)
* [[Sudak municipality]] (1930-1944)
* [[Yalta municipality]] (1930-1944)
* [[Kuibysheve (Bakhchisaray Raion)|Albat]] (1935-?)

===Poles===
* Markhlevsk Raion ([[Dovbysh|Markhlevsk]]) (1925-1935), today part of [[Baranivka Raion]] ([[Zhytomyr Oblast]])

===Ukrainians===
;Part of RSFSR then
* Ishun Raion ([[Ishun (Krasnoperekopsk Raion)|Ishun]]) (1930-?), today part of [[Krasnoperekopsk Raion]] ([[Crimea]])

===Germans===
* Fritz Heckert Raion ([[Vysokopillya]]) (1926-?), today part of [[Beryslav Raion]] ([[Kherson Oblast]]) (see [[:de:Kolonie Kronau]])
* Zeltsi Raion (Zeltsi)
* Karl-Liebknecht Raion (Landau)
* Karl-Marx Raion
* Luxemburg Raion
* Pulinsk Raion
* Rotfront Raion (Waldheim)
* Singtran Raion
* Friedrich-Engels Raion
* Spartakivka Raion ([[Velykodolynske (Odesa Oblast)|Spartakivka]]) (see [[:de:Welykodolynske]])
* Molochansk Raion ([[Molochansk]]), today part of [[Tokmak Raion]] ([[Zaporizhzhia Oblast]])
;Part of RSFSR then
* Büyük Onlar Raion ([[Oktyabrske (Crimea)|Büyük Onlar]]) (1930-1938), today part of [[Krasnohvardiiske Raion]] ([[Crimea]])
* Thälmann Raion ([[Krasnohvardiyske (Crimea)|Qurman-Kemelci]]) (1935-1938), today part of [[Krasnohvardiiske Raion]] ([[Crimea]])

== Before World War II ==
[[File:Carpatho Ukraine March 1939.png|right|200px]]In 1919, the northern Mhlyn, Novozybkiv, Starodub, and Surazh counties of [[Chernihiv Governorate]], with their mixed Ukrainian–Belarusian–Russian population, were transferred from Ukraine to the newly established [[Gomel Governorate]] of the Russian republic.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chernihiv gubernia|url=http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CC%5CH%5CChernihivgubernia.htm|website=Encyclopedia of Ukraine|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> In February 1924, [[Taganrog|Tahanrih]] and [[Shakhty]] counties (Tahanrizka okruha and Shakhtynska [[Okruhas of the Ukrainian SSR|okruha]]) were transferred from the [[Donetsk Governorate|Donetsk guberniia]] of the Ukrainian SSR to the [[North Caucasus Krai|North Caucasus krai]] of the Russian SFSR.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JWxEDAAAQBAJ&q=Tahanrih+OR+taganrog&pg=PT2533|title=Encyclopedia of Ukraine: Volume IV: Ph-Sr|last=Struk|first=Danylo Husar|date=1993-12-15|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=9781442651265|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Krinko|first=Evgeny F.|date=2015|title='…To Elect a Parity Commission': Documents about the Transfer of Taganrog and Shakhty Districts to the RSFSR in 1924–1925|url=http://ejournal16.com/journals_n/1450375402.pdf|journal=Russkii Arhkiv|volume=10|issue=4|pages=288–295|doi=10.13187/ra.2015.10.288|doi-access=free}}</ref>[[File:Czechoslovakia01.png|right|200px]]
Just before World War II, Hungary with the help from Poland occupied [[Carpatho-Ukraine]] that was to secede from the falling apart [[Czechoslovakia]] after the [[Munich agreement]] plus some additional territories of Slovakia. Poland in turn also occupied some territories of Silesia.

In the fall of 1938, the southwestern territories of [[Subcarpathian Rus]] including the cities of [[Uzhhorod]], [[Berehove]], and [[Mukacheve]] were yielded to the Kingdom of Hungary.

In 1939, [[Carpatho-Ukraine]] was overrun by the [[Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946)|Kingdom of Hungary]].

Some of the newly acquired territories in 1939 were annexed and incorporated as Kárpátalja. Kárpátalja unlike most of the country, however, had a special administrative system with the intention of it being governed by the Ruthenian minority population. In practice, it was not the case. Kárpátalja was divided into three administrative delegations ''(közigazgatási kirendeltség)'' which were each divided into four districts ''(járás)''. The previously annexed territories of 1938 were divided into [[Bereg County]] and [[Ung County]].

== World War II ==
[[File:Ukraine 1940-1945.png|right|200px]][[File:General Government for the occupied Polish territories (1941).png|right|250px]]
[[File:ReichskommissariatUkraineMap.png|right|400px]]

In 1939 and 1940, the Soviet Union launched an offensive into eastern Poland and eastern Romania. During these operations, the territories of [[Volhynia]], [[Halychyna]], [[Bukovina]], and [[Budjak]] were added to the Ukrainian SSR.  In the territories of Volhynia and Halychyna, six oblasts were created in 1939: [[Lviv Oblast]], [[Drohobych Oblast]], [[Stanislav Oblast]], [[Ternopil Oblast]], [[Volyn Oblast]], and [[Rivne Oblast]].  In 1940, Bukovina was organized as [[Chernivtsi Oblast]] and Budjak as [[Izmail Oblast]].

After the German invasion of 1941, Ukraine was split between three countries, Germany, Romania, and Hungary. Within Germany Ukraine also was divided between the General Government (Krakau), Reichskommisariat (centered in Rivne), and Wehrmacht administration closer to the Eastern Front.

=== General Government ===
[[West Ukraine|Western Ukraine]] around [[Lviv]] was part of the [[General Government]] as Distrikt Galizien which was added to four other existing districts with the invasion of the Soviet Union. Distrikt Galizien consisted of 13 land-kreis and one stadtkreis (Lemberg). Some other territories that had been incorporated into the [[Ukrainian SSR]] in 1939 were passed to other Distrikts, mostly Krakau.

===Reichskommissariat Ukraine===
Most of Ukraine was under a "civil administration" of [[Reichskommissariat Ukraine]] with capital in [[Rivne|Rowno]]. Some territories also included former parts of Belarus. Reichskommissariat was divided into five ''General-bezirke'' and one ''Teil-bezirke'' Taurien (Krim): 
* Wolhynien und Podolien (Luzk) - 25 Kreisgebiete, 
* Shitomir - 17 Kreisgebiete, 
* Kiew - 24 Kreisgebiete, 
* Nikolajew - 13 Kreisgebiete, 
* Dnjepropetrowsk - 16 Kreisgebiete, 
* Krim (Melitopol) - 5 Kreisgebiete.

Each Generalbezirke consisted of several Kreisgebiete which in turn were divided into selsoviets. Krim, however, did not in reality encompass territory of the [[Crimean peninsula]] which was under a special jurisdiction of [[Wehrmacht]]. Territories of Ukraine ([[Donets basin]] and [[Sloboda Ukraine]]) also stayed under the [[Wehrmacht]] jurisdiction due to a close proximity to front-lines. It was planned to extend the territory of such Ukraine all the way to [[Volga]] river adding some other General-bezirke.

===Romania===
[[File:WWII administrative map of Romania.svg|right|400px]]

Romania liberated the south-western part of Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from the foreign rule, more specifically the area which today constitutes [[Odesa Oblast]] eastward of the [[Dniester]] and southern [[Vinnytsia Oblast]], land inhabited mostly by Romanians a few centuries ago. Those territories were organized into the province of Transnistria. Romania also recovered [[Budjak]] ([[Izmail Oblast]]) and [[Northern Bukovina]] ([[Chernivtsi Oblast]]), territories with Romanian ethnic majority, which Romania lost in the beginning of World War II.

* Transnistria - organized as the [[Transnistria Governorate]] with 13 ''[[județ]]e'' ("counties"), subdivided into towns and raionul ([[raions]]). 
* Budjak was annexed to the [[Bessarabia Governorate (Romania)|Bessarabia Governorate]] organized into three ''județe''.
* Northern Bukovina was annexed to the [[Bukovina Governorate]] organized into four ''județe''.

== Polish-Soviet border changes (1944–51) ==
[[File:Ukraine 1946-1954.png|right|300px]]
[[File:Umowa o zamianie granic 1951.jpg|thumb|left|Polish-Soviet border changes]]
Between 1944 and 1951 the border between Ukrainian SSR and Polish People's Republic changed a lot. There were at least five territorial transfers. 
* October 1944 to Poland were transferred [[Horyniec-Zdrój|Horynets]] Raion, [[Lubaczów|Lubachiv]] Raion, [[Uhniv]] Raion, Synyava Raion, and [[Laszki, Subcarpathian Voivodeship|Lyashkiv]] Raion of the [[Lviv Oblast]]. 
* March 1945 to Poland also were transferred [[Bircza|Bircha]] Raion, Liski Raion, and western part of [[Przemyśl|Peremyshl]] Raion with the city of [[Przemyśl|Peremyshl]] from the [[Drohobych Oblast]]. 
* May 1948 to Poland was also transferred [[Medyka]] Raion of Drohobych Oblast. 
* In 1951 Drohobych Oblast yielded [[Ustrzyki Dolne|Nyzhno-Ustritsa]] Raion to Poland as well. 
* February 15, 1951, several Polish localities were transferred to Ukraine as part of the territorial exchange which formed Zabuzk Raion with seat in [[Belz]], including the city of [[Chervonohrad|Krystynopil]]. Later Zabuzk Raion was reassigned under [[Sokal Raion]] of [[Lviv Oblast]].

===Other changes (1944–46)===
A new [[Kherson Oblast]] was created during the war on March 30, 1944, out of the territories of [[Mykolaiv Oblast]] and [[Zaporizhzhia Oblast]]. Furthermore, a few raions of Odesa Oblast (including the city of [[Voznesensk]] and its surrounding areas), were transferred to Mykolaiv Oblast.

Beside a Ukrainian-Polish border exchange on January 22, 1946, the [[Zakarpattia Oblast]] was also created out of newly acquired [[Czechoslovakia]] territories, where [[Carpatho-Ukraine]] had been proclaimed just before [[World War II]].

== 1954 ==
Big changes in the administrative division in Ukraine took place in winter of 1954.

The new [[Cherkasy Oblast]] was created on January 7, mostly out of the southern [[raion]]s of [[Kyiv Oblast]], and some raions of [[Poltava Oblast|Poltava]] and [[Kirovohrad Oblast]]s.

On February 15 [[Izmail Oblast]] was merged into [[Odesa Oblast]]. Several raions of the previous Odesa Oblast were transferred to the neighboring [[Kirovohrad Oblast|Kirovohrad]] and Mykolaiv Oblasts.

The [[Crimean Oblast]] was [[1954 transfer of Crimea|transferred]] from Russia to Ukraine on February 19.

==Oblast changes (1954–1991)==
Before the fall of Soviet Union in 1992 the [[Ukrainian SSR]] consisted of 25 oblasts and two cities of republican subordination, Kyiv and Sevastopol.

In 1958 Voroshylovhrad Oblast was renamed Luhansk, then in 1970 back to Voroshylovhrad, and in 1990 once again to Luhansk.

May 21, 1959, [[Drohobych Oblast]] was merged into [[Lviv Oblast]]

1965 [[Talalaiv Raion]] was transferred from [[Sumy Oblast]] to [[Chernihiv Oblast]]

1986 [[Chornobyl Raion]] and the city municipality of [[Prypiat]] were liquidated and merged with the [[Ivankiv Raion]], [[Kyiv Oblast]].

In 1988 the new city of [[Slavutych]] was established for victims of the [[Chornobyl catastrophe]], in [[Chernihiv Oblast]]. The city was subordinated to the [[Kyiv Oblast]].

On February 12, 1991, the Crimean oblast was restored to its pre-WWII status of autonomous Soviet socialist republic following a [[1991 Crimean sovereignty referendum|referendum]].

==Independence (1991—)==
{{See also|List of raions of Ukraine (1966-2020)}}
{{Ukraine Labelled Map|float=right}}
After its [[Declaration of Independence of Ukraine|declaration of independence]] in August 1991, and the [[dissolution of the Soviet Union]] in December, Ukraine grandfathered the whole Soviet system of administrative divisions. Cities of republic significance were transformed into cities with special status.{{cn|date=July 2022}} 
* 24 [[Oblast of Ukraine|oblasts]] (regions)
** [[Raions of Ukraine|raions]] (districts)
** cities of regional significance
**[[Urban districts of Ukraine|urban raions]]
* 2 [[cities with special status]]
** urban raions
* 1 [[Crimea|autonomous republic]] (Crimea)
** raions
** cities of republic significance
**urban raions

In February 1992, the Crimean ASSR's parliament renamed it the Republic of Crimea,{{cn|date=July 2022}} and in 1998 the Ukrainian parliament renamed it [[Autonomous Republic of Crimea]], following disputes over the republic's constitution and level of autonomy. In February 2014, Russian forces occupied the peninsula including the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and city of Sevastopol, and in March formally [[Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation|annexed the territories]] to the Russian Federation, although it remained internationally recognized as part of Ukraine.{{cn|date=July 2022}}

After the start of the [[War in Donbas (2014–2022)|war in Donbas]] in the oblasts of [[Donetsk Oblast|Donetsk]] and [[Luhansk Oblast|Luhansk]] in April 2014, Ukrainian government forces fought to hold territory against separatist militias with a significant level of Russian manpower and military support. After a period of intense warfare involving Russian regular forces in 2014 and 2015, a [[Minsk Protocol|ceasefire]] was declared and a relatively stable line of contact was established, although the semi-frozen conflict has continued to cost thousands of lives along the so-called grey zone that surrounds the line of contact. About a third of the area of the two Donbas oblasts remain under the de facto control of Russian-supported self-proclaimed [[Donetsk People's Republic|Donetsk]] and [[Luhansk People's Republic|Luhansk people's republics]]. In these cities and raions where the respective local governments cannot exercise their constitutional powers, Ukraine created [[Civil–military administrations (Ukraine)|civil–military administrations]] in February 2015.<ref name="pravda">{{cite news|title=Poroshenko gave the green light to create civil-military administrations|url=http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2015/02/26/7059870/|access-date=26 February 2015|work=[[Ukrainska Pravda]]|date=26 February 2015|location=Ukrainian}}</ref>

==Administrative reform of 2015==
{{Main|Amalgamated hromada}}
In 2015 a new type of administrative unit was created, the [[amalgamated hromada]], to help the financial and administrate power and independence of rural Ukraine.<ref name="EspresogrB">{{in lang|uk}} [https://espreso.tv/article/2017/10/30/vybory_v_obyednanykh_terytorialnykh_gromadakh_scho_ce_i_dlya_chogo_potribne Elections in the united territorial communities. What is this and what you need], [[Espreso TV]] (31 October 2017)</ref> This means that [[Settlement council (Ukraine)|settlement councils]], [[Rural council (Ukraine)|rural councils]], and [[City of district significance (Ukraine)|cities of district significance]] can create new administrative units.<ref name="EspresogrB"/> According to draft [[Constitution of Ukraine|constitutional]] changes submitted to the [[Verkhovna Rada]] (Ukraine's parliament) by President [[Volodymyr Zelensky]] in December 2019, the hromadas should replace the raions of Ukraine.<ref name="50808046decentralizationDad">{{cite news |title=Zelensky's decentralization: without features of Donbass, but with districts and prefects|url=https://www.bbc.com/ukrainian/features-50808046|work=[[BBC Ukrainian]]|date=16 December 2019|language=uk}}</ref>

==Administrative reform of 2020==
{{See also|List of raions of Ukraine}}
[[File:Raions_of_Ukraine_(after_Oct._2020).svg|thumb|Raions of Ukraine after October 2020]]
On 17 July 2020, the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament) approved an administrative reform to merge most of the 490 raions, along with the "cities of regional significance" which had been separate from raions, into just 136 reformed raions. These 136 districts include ten in Crimea and several in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, which were and remain [[Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine|under Russian control]]. New third-level hromadas have taken over most tasks of the raions (education, healthcare, sport facilities, culture, and social welfare).<ref name="reformi697326">[https://m.glavcom.ua/publications/kudi-znikayut-rayoni-pislyamova-do-guchnoji-reformi-zelenskogo-697326.html Where did 354 districts disappear to? Anatomy of loud reform], [[Glavcom]] (7 August 2020) {{in lang|uk}}</ref>

==Administrative reform of 2023==
{{See also|List of urban-type settlements in Ukraine}}
On 24 October 2023 [[President of Ukraine|President]] [[Volodymyr Zelenskyy]] signed Law No. 8263 that abolished the concept of "[[urban-type settlement]]" in [[Ukraine]].<ref name="7425475UTSda">{{cite web |url=https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2023/10/24/7425475/|title=Zelensky canceled urban-type settlements|date=25 October 2023|access-date=24 October 2023|publisher=[[Ukrainska Pravda]]|language=Ukrainian}}</ref> Law No. 8263 was meant to facilitate "de-Sovietization of the procedure for solving certain issues of the administrative and territorial system of Ukraine."<ref name="7425475UTSda"/> (In [[Ukrainian independence|1991 Ukraine became independent]] [[Dissolution of the Soviet Union|of the Soviet Union]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=BNUtdVrw6lIC&dq=16+July+1991+Ukrainian+state+sovereignty.&pg=PA722 A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407100810/https://books.google.com/books?id=BNUtdVrw6lIC&dq=16+July+1991+Ukrainian+state+sovereignty.&pg=PA722 |date=7 April 2023 }} by [[Paul Robert Magocsi]], [[University of Toronto Press]], 2010, {{ISBN|1442610212}} (page 563/564 & 722/723)</ref>) The only official classifications of inhabited locality in Ukraine remained a city (''misto'', an urban locality), a settlement (''[[Village#Ukraine|selyshche]]'', a rural locality with a population of at least 5,000) and village (''selo'', a rural locality of less than 5,000).<ref name="7425475UTSda"/>

==See also==
*[[Administrative division of Ukraine (1918)]]
*[[Administrative divisions of Ukraine (1918–1925)]]
*[[Administrative divisions of Ukraine (1925–1932)]]
*[[Administrative divisions of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|Administrative divisions of the Ukrainian SSR]]
*[[Administrative divisions of Ukraine]]
*[[Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina]]
*[[Invasion of Poland]]
*[[Chernobyl disaster|Chernobyl catastrophe]]

==References==
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