There are nine populated places in Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine, that have been officially granted city status () 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, Mykolaiv, with a population of 514,136 people, while the least populous city was Bashtanka, with 13,146 people. To access the statistics, scroll down to the section titled "Кількість та територіальне розміщення населення України" (). Then, click on the linked text "Публікація у електронному вигляді" (). This will download the statistics as a RAR file from which it can be accessed using RAR file converters such as 7-Zip. In 2024, following the passage of derussification laws, Yuzhnoukrainsk was renamed Pivdennoukrainsk. For their contributions to the country's defense during the Russian invasion, three cities in the oblast were awarded with the honorary title Hero City of Ukraine: Mykolaiv in 2022, and Bashtanka and Voznesensk in 2025.
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 four cities were located in nineteen 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 four new, expanded raions. The four raions that make up the oblast are Bashtanka, Mykolaiv, Pervomaisk, and Voznesensk.
List of cities
+ Name Name(in Ukrainian) Raion (district) Population(2022 estimates) Population(2001 census) PopulationchangeBashtanka Баштанка Bashtanka Mykolaiv Миколаїв Mykolaiv Nova Odesa Нова Одеса Mykolaiv Novyi Buh Новий Буг Bashtanka Ochakiv Очаків Mykolaiv Pervomaisk Первомайськ Pervomaisk Pivdennoukrainsk Південноукраїнськ Voznesensk Snihurivka Снігурівка Bashtanka Voznesensk Вознесенськ Voznesensk
See also List of cities in Ukraine
Notes
References
External links
2001 Ukrainian census, Population Structure
Regions of Ukraine and their composition