List of cities in Zaporizhzhia Oblast

Map of Zaporizhzhia Oblast in Ukraine with post-2020 administrative divisions
List of cities in Zaporizhzhia Oblast
List of cities in Zaporizhzhia Oblast
List of cities in Zaporizhzhia Oblast
List of cities in Zaporizhzhia Oblast
List of cities in Zaporizhzhia Oblast
List of cities in Zaporizhzhia Oblast
List of cities in Zaporizhzhia Oblast
List of cities in Zaporizhzhia Oblast
List of cities in Zaporizhzhia Oblast
List of cities in Zaporizhzhia Oblast
List of cities in Zaporizhzhia Oblast
List of cities in Zaporizhzhia Oblast
List of cities in Zaporizhzhia Oblast
List of cities in Zaporizhzhia Oblast
Location of cities in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, with red dots indicating Russian-occupied cities and green dots indicating Ukrainian-controlled cities

There are 14 populated places in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine, that have been officially granted city status (Ukrainian: місто, romanizedmisto) by the Verkhovna Rada, the country's parliament. 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. As of 5 December 2001, the date of the first and only official census in the country since independence, the most populous city in the oblast was the regional capital, Zaporizhzhia, with a population of 817,882 people, while the least populous city was Molochansk, with 7,964 people. The most recent settlement to receive city status is Enerhodar, which was granted the status by the Verkhovna Rada in 1985.

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 nine cities were located amongst twenty raions (districts) as cities of district significance, which are subordinated to the governments of the raions. On 18 July 2020, an administrative reform abolished and merged the oblast's raions and cities of regional significance into five new, expanded raions. The five raions that make up the oblast are Berdiansk, Melitopol, Polohy, Vasylivka, and Zaporizhzhia.

After 24 February 2022, during Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian forces occupied three cities in Polohy Raion and all cities located in the Berdiansk, Melitopol, and Vasylivka raions. In the oblast's occupied territory, de facto Russian officials have used the same five raions as Ukraine, while Melitopol (the oblast's most populous city controlled by Russia) serves as the capital for the Russian administration. As of 3 July 2024, ten cities are occupied by Russian forces, while two frontline cities (Huliaipole and Orikhiv) have been nearly destroyed by fighting and Russian shelling.

List of cities

Arterial road at night between mid-rise buildings, street lights, and trees in Zaporizhzhia
Zaporizhzhia, capital and most populous city in Zaporizhzhia Oblast
Bird's-eye view photo of Berdiansk, showing the industrial and residential areas and the adjacent Sea of Azov
Berdiansk, a large port city on the Sea of Azov and the third most populous city in the oblast
Photo of Enerhodar from a bird's-eye view showing high-rise and commercial buildings and the surrounding forest
Enerhodar, the oblast's fourth most populous city and site of the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant

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