Hromada

This article needs to be updated. The reason given is: The article does not reflect the changes introduced by the 2024 Law about populated places in Ukraine. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (May 2025)

|

Third-level administrative divisions of Ukraine

This article is about the administrative division in Ukraine. For the use in Poland, see Gromada. For the use in Belarus, see Hramada. For the former division, see Amalgamated hromada. For other uses, see Hromada (disambiguation).

Part of a series on the

Subdivisions of Ukraine
First level

* 1 autonomous republic
* 24 oblasts
* 2 cities with special status

Second level

* 136 raions

Third level

* 1469 hromadas

This sidebar:

* view
* talk
* edit

In Ukraine, a hromada (Ukrainian: територіальна громада, romanized: terytorialna hromada, lit. 'territorial community') is the main type of municipality and the third level local self-government in Ukraine. The current hromadas were established by the Government of Ukraine on 12 June 2020.[1]

A municipality is designated urban hromada if its administration is located in a city; settlement hromada if it is located in a settlement (selyshche), and rural hromada if it is located in a village (selo) or a selyshche.[2] Hromadas are grouped to form raions (districts); groups of raions form oblasts (regions). Optionally, a municipality may be divided into starosta okruhs (similar to civil parishes in Great Britain or frazioni in Italy), which are the lowest level of local government in Ukraine.

Similar terms exist in Poland (gromada) and in Belarus (hramada). The literal translation of this term is "community", similar to the terms used in western European states, such as Germany (Gemeinde), France (commune), Italy (comune), and Portugal (freguesia), or in several English-speaking countries (township).

## List of hromadas

[edit]

Main article: List of hromadas of Ukraine

In total, there are 1469 hromadas (as of 1 October 2023), including:

* 409 urban hromadas (Ukrainian: міська громада),
* 435 selyshche hromadas (Ukrainian: селищна громада),
* 625 rural hromadas (Ukrainian: сільська громада).

Region  | Number of hromadas

|

Hromada type  | Total
urban  | settlement  | rural
Zakarpattia Oblast | 11  | 18  | 35  | 64
Cherkasy Oblast | 16  | 10  | 40  | 66
Chernivtsi Oblast | 11  | 7  | 34  | 52
Chernihiv Oblast | 16  | 24  | 17  | 57
Donetsk Oblast | 43  | 14  | 9  | 66
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast | 20  | 25  | 41  | 86
Kharkiv Oblast | 17  | 26  | 13  | 56
Kherson Oblast | 9  | 17  | 23  | 49
Khmelnytskyi Oblast | 13  | 22  | 25  | 60
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast | 15  | 23  | 24  | 62
Kyiv Oblast | 24  | 23  | 22  | 69
Kirovohrad Oblast | 12  | 16  | 21  | 49
Luhansk Oblast | 20  | 12  | 5  | 37
Lviv Oblast | 39  | 16  | 18  | 73
Mykolaiv Oblast | 9  | 14  | 29  | 52
Odesa Oblast | 19  | 25  | 47  | 91
Poltava Oblast | 16  | 20  | 24  | 60
Rivne Oblast | 11  | 13  | 40  | 64
Sumy Oblast | 15  | 15  | 21  | 51
Ternopil Oblast | 18  | 16  | 21  | 55
Vinnytsia Oblast | 18  | 22  | 23  | 63
Volyn Oblast | 11  | 18  | 25  | 54
Zaporizhzhia Oblast | 14  | 17  | 36  | 67
Zhytomyr Oblast | 12  | 22  | 32  | 66
Ukraine | 409  | 435  | 625  | 1469

## History

[edit]

Hromadas of Ukraine as of 2020 (raions in Crimea)

Prior to 2020, the basic units of administrative division in Ukraine were rural councils, settlement councils and city councils, which were often referred to by the generic term hromada.

The Constitution of Ukraine and some other laws, including the "Law on local self-governance", delegate certain rights and obligations for hromadas. Types of hromadas include cities, rural settlements, and villages. In his draft constitutional amendments of June 2014, President Petro Poroshenko proposed changing the administrative divisions of Ukraine, which he felt should include oblasts, raions and hromadas.[3]

On 12 June 2020 the Government of Ukraine approved the territories and administrative centers of the hromadas, which cover settlements in all regions of Ukraine except for Crimea.[4] A total of 1470 hromadas were approved.

On 12 August 2020 the Sokoliv hromada of the Cherkasy Oblast became a part of the Zhashkiv hromada.[5] Thus, there were 1469 hromadas.

## Administrative tasks and objectives

[edit]

This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (June 2022) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

|

Each hromada carries out two types of task: own and commissioned. Own tasks are public tasks exercised by self-government, which serve to satisfy the needs of the community. The tasks can be twofold:

* compulsory – where the municipality cannot decline to carry out the tasks, and must set up a budget to carry them out in order to provide the inhabitants with the basic public benefits.
* optional – where the municipality can carry them out in accordance with available budgetary means, set out only to specific local needs (on the hromada's own responsibility and budget).

### Own objectives

[edit]

Own high objectives include matters such as spatial harmony, real estate management, environmental protection and nature conservation, water management, country roads, public streets, bridges, squares and traffic systems, water supply systems and source, the sewage system, removal of urban waste, water treatment, maintenance of cleanliness and order, sanitary facilities, dumps and council waste, supply of electric and thermal energy and gas, public transport, health care, welfare, care homes, subsidised housing, public education, cultural facilities including public libraries and other cultural institutions, historic monuments conservation and protection, the sports facilities and tourism including recreational grounds and devices, marketplaces and covered markets, green spaces and public parks, communal graveyards, public order and safety, fire and flood protection with equipment maintenance and storage, maintaining objects and devices of the public utility and administrative buildings, pro-family policy including social support for pregnant women, medical and legal care, supporting and popularising the self-government initiatives and cooperation within the commune including with non-governmental organizations, interaction with regional communities from other countries, etc.

### Commissioned tasks

[edit]

Commissioned tasks cover the remaining public tasks resulting from legitimate needs of the state, commissioned by central government for the units of local government to implement. The tasks are handed over on the basis of statutory by-laws, charters and regulations, or by way of agreements between the self-government units and central-government administration.

## See also

[edit]

* Local government in Ukraine

## References

[edit]

1. ^ "That which never existed in Ukraine: The Cabinet of Ministers established the basic level of administrative division which will ensure ubiquity of local governance". decentralization.gov.ua. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
2. ^ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів". Офіційний вебпортал парламенту України (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 18 June 2023.
3. ^ Poroshenko suggests granting status of regions to Crimea, Kyiv, Sevastopol, creating new political subdivision of 'community' Archived 2014-07-01 at the Wayback Machine, Interfax-Ukraine (26 June 2014)
4. ^ Автор. "Те, чого ніколи не було в Україні: Уряд затвердив адмінтерустрій базового рівня, що забезпечить повсюдність місцевого самоврядування". decentralization.gov.ua. Retrieved 18 June 2023.
5. ^ "Про внесення змін у додаток до розпорядження Кабінету Міністрів України від 12 червня 2020 р. № 728". Офіційний вебпортал парламенту України (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 18 June 2023.

## External links

[edit]

* The dictionary definition of hromada at Wiktionary

* v
* t
* e

Slavic-language terms for administrative divisions

Current|

* dzielnica
* gmina
* hromada
* krai
* kraj
* krajina / pokrajina
* městys
* mjesna zajednica
* obec
* oblast / oblast' / oblasti / oblys / obwód / voblasts'
* okręg
* okres
* okrug
* okruha
* opština / općina / občina / obshtina
* osiedle
* powiat
* raion
* selsoviet / silrada
* sołectwo
* starosta okruh
* voivodeship / vojvodina
* županija

Historical|

* darugha
* gromada
* guberniya / gubernia
* jurydyka
* khutor
* obshchina
* okolia
* opole
* pogost
* povit
* prowincja
* sorok
* srez
* starostwo / starostva
* uezd
* volost
* ziemia / zemlja
* župa
* uchastok

* v
* t
* e

Articles on third-level administrative divisions of countries

Africa|

* Burkina Faso
* Cameroon
* Ethiopia
* Guinea
* Ivory Coast
* Liberia
* Mali
* Morocco
* Mozambique
* Niger
* Senegal
* Sierra Leone
* South Africa
* South Sudan
* Togo
* Zimbabwe

Americas|

* Bolivia
* Brazil
* Chile
* Colombia
* Costa Rica
* Ecuador
* Haiti
* Panama
* Peru
* United States
* Uruguay
* Venezuela

Asia|

* Bangladesh
* Brunei
* Cambodia
* China
* East Timor
* India
* Indonesia
* Iran
* Iraq
* Israel
* local council
* city council
* regional council
* Japan
* Lebanon
* Mongolia
* Myanmar
* Nepal
* Philippines
* Sri Lanka
* Taiwan
* Tajikistan
* Thailand
* Vietnam

Europe|

* Albania
* Austria
* Belgium
* Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Finland
* France
* Germany
* Greece
* Italy
* Lithuania
* Portugal
* Russia
* Slovakia
* Spain
* Switzerland
* Ukraine

Oceania|

* Papua New Guinea

List of administrative divisions by country
*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template