Ukraine: cities by population
Ukraine has a population of 40,000,000, with Kyiv as its capital. The 50 largest of its 4,972 recorded towns and cities, ranked.
Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are GeoNames country data. Sources & method.
| # | Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kyiv | Kyiv City | 2,952,301 |
| 2 | Kharkiv | Kharkiv | 1,421,125 |
| 3 | Odesa | Odesa | 1,010,537 |
| 4 | Dnipro | Dnipropetrovsk | 968,502 |
| 5 | Donetsk | Donetsk | 901,645 |
| 6 | Lviv | Lviv | 717,273 |
| 7 | Zaporizhzhya | Zaporizhzhia | 710,052 |
| 8 | Kryvyy Rih | Dnipropetrovsk | 603,904 |
| 9 | Sevastopol | Sevastopol City | 547,820 |
| 10 | Mykolayiv | Mykolaiv | 470,011 |
| 11 | Vinnytsya | Vinnytsia | 430,091 |
| 12 | Luhansk | Luhansk | 397,677 |
| 13 | Makiyivka | Donetsk | 338,968 |
| 14 | Simferopol | Crimea | 336,460 |
| 15 | Chernihiv | Chernihiv Oblast | 282,747 |
| 16 | Poltava | Poltava | 279,593 |
| 17 | Khmelnytskyi | Khmelnytskyi | 274,452 |
| 18 | Cherkasy | Cherkasy | 269,836 |
| 19 | Chernivtsi | Chernivtsi | 264,298 |
| 20 | Zhytomyr | Zhytomyr Oblast | 261,624 |
| 21 | Sumy | Sumy | 256,474 |
| 22 | Rivne | Rivne Oblast | 243,873 |
| 23 | Horlivka | Donetsk | 239,828 |
| 24 | Ivano-Frankivsk | Ivano-Frankivsk | 238,196 |
| 25 | Mariupol | Donetsk | 230,000 |
| 26 | Kamyanske | Dnipropetrovsk | 226,845 |
| 27 | Ternopil | Ternopil | 225,238 |
| 28 | Kremenchuk | Poltava | 224,997 |
| 29 | Kropyvnytskyi | Kirovohrad | 219,676 |
| 30 | Lutsk | Volyn | 215,986 |
| 31 | Bila Tserkva | Kyiv Oblast | 207,273 |
| 32 | Kerch | Crimea | 148,932 |
| 33 | Melitopol | Zaporizhzhia | 148,851 |
| 34 | Bohuniya | Zhytomyr Oblast | 147,324 |
| 35 | Kramatorsk | Donetsk | 147,145 |
| 36 | Cheremushky | Odesa | 120,000 |
| 37 | Uzhhorod | Zakarpattia | 115,449 |
| 38 | Brovary | Kyiv Oblast | 109,806 |
| 39 | Yevpatoriya | Crimea | 107,040 |
| 40 | Berdyansk | Zaporizhzhia | 106,311 |
| 41 | Alchevsk | Luhansk | 106,062 |
| 42 | Nikopol | Dnipropetrovsk | 105,160 |
| 43 | Slovyansk | Donetsk | 105,141 |
| 44 | Pavlohrad | Dnipropetrovsk | 101,430 |
| 45 | Siverskodonetsk | Luhansk | 99,067 |
| 46 | Kamyanets-Podilskyi | Khmelnytskyi | 97,908 |
| 47 | Lysychansk | Luhansk | 93,340 |
| 48 | Mukachevo | Zakarpattia | 85,569 |
| 49 | Konotop | Sumy | 84,787 |
| 50 | Uman | Cherkasy | 81,525 |
Twenty years earlier: Ukraine in the 2005 World Gazetteer — population then 46,655,272.