Largest Cities in Ukraine 2026: Population Ranking

Ukraine's cities at a glance

Updated October 2026

Dots sized by population · Kyiv in orange

Ukraine has 3 cities with more than a million inhabitants and 39 with more than 100,000 (city-proper figures). The largest is Kyiv with 2,952,301 people, followed by Kharkiv (1,421,125) and Odesa (1,010,537). The three largest cities together hold about 13.6% of the country's 39.4 million people.

The capital, Kyiv, is also the largest city.

By region, the most large cities are in Dnipropetrovsk (5), Donetsk (4), Zaporizhzhia (3).

Country-level figures — live population, births and deaths, growth, density and history — are on the Ukraine population page; provinces, terrain, rivers and society maps are in the Ukraine atlas.

Ukraine cities by population

39 cities · GeoNames · city proper

#	City	Region	Population	Share of Ukraine
1	KyivCapital	Kyiv City	2,952,301	7.5%
2	Kharkiv	Kharkiv	1,421,125	3.6%
3	Odesa	Odesa	1,010,537	2.6%
4	Dnipro	Dnipropetrovsk	968,502	2.5%
5	Donetsk	Donetsk	901,645	2.3%
6	Lviv	Lviv	717,273	1.8%
7	Zaporizhzhya	Zaporizhzhia	710,052	1.8%
8	Kryvyy Rih	Dnipropetrovsk	603,904	1.5%
9	Sevastopol	Sevastopol City	547,820	1.4%
10	Mykolayiv	Mykolaiv	470,011	1.2%
11	Vinnytsya	Vinnytsia	430,091	1.1%
12	Luhansk	Luhansk	397,677	1%
13	Simferopol	Crimea	336,460	0.9%
14	Chernihiv	Chernihiv Oblast	282,747	0.7%
15	Poltava	Poltava	279,593	0.7%
16	Khmelnytskyi	Khmelnytskyi	274,452	0.7%
17	Cherkasy	Cherkasy	269,836	0.7%
18	Chernivtsi	Chernivtsi	264,298	0.7%
19	Zhytomyr	Zhytomyr Oblast	261,624	0.7%
20	Sumy	Sumy	256,474	0.7%
21	Rivne	Rivne Oblast	243,873	0.6%
22	Ivano-Frankivsk	Ivano-Frankivsk	238,196	0.6%
23	Mariupol	Donetsk	230,000	0.6%
24	Kamyanske	Dnipropetrovsk	226,845	0.6%
25	Ternopil	Ternopil	225,238	0.6%
26	Kremenchuk	Poltava	224,997	0.6%
27	Kropyvnytskyi	Kirovohrad	219,676	0.6%
28	Lutsk	Volyn	215,986	0.5%
29	Bila Tserkva	Kyiv Oblast	207,273	0.5%
30	Kerch	Crimea	148,932	0.4%
31	Melitopol	Zaporizhzhia	148,851	0.4%
32	Kramatorsk	Donetsk	147,145	0.4%
33	Uzhhorod	Zakarpattia	115,449	0.3%
34	Brovary	Kyiv Oblast	109,806	0.3%
35	Yevpatoriya	Crimea	107,040	0.3%
36	Berdyansk	Zaporizhzhia	106,311	0.3%
37	Nikopol	Dnipropetrovsk	105,160	0.3%
38	Slovyansk	Donetsk	105,141	0.3%
39	Pavlohrad	Dnipropetrovsk	101,430	0.3%

Cities with 300,000 or more people link to their own page. The list keeps every city of 100,000+ and at least the 30 largest places of the country.

Frequently asked questions

What is the largest city in Ukraine?

Kyiv, with about 2,952,301 inhabitants (city proper).

What is the capital of Ukraine?

Kyiv — population 2,952,301, the largest city in the country.

How many cities in Ukraine have over one million people?

3: Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa.

Are these metropolitan-area populations?

No. They are city-proper figures (the administrative city) from GeoNames, based on the latest census or official estimate. Metropolitan areas, which include suburbs and satellite towns, are larger — often several times larger for the biggest cities.

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