page_title: Odessa Oblast
section_title: Administrative divisions
hierarchical_section_title: Odessa Oblast / Administrative divisions
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Карта адміністративно-територіального поділу Одеської області 2020
context_page_description: Odesa Oblast is an oblast of southwestern Ukraine, located along the northern coast of the Black Sea. Its administrative center is the city of Odessa.
  The region, the largest in Ukraine by area, is approximately the size of Belgium. The length of coastline reaches 300 km, while the state border stretches for 1,200 km. The region has eight seaports, over 80,000 ha of vineyards, and five of the biggest lakes in Ukraine. One of the largest, Yalpuh Lake, is as large as the city of Odessa itself.
context_section_description: The Odessa Oblast is administratively subdivided into 26 raions (districts) and 7 municipalities which are directly subordinate to the oblast government - (Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Chornomorsk, Izmail, Podilsk, Teplodar, Yuzhne and the administrative center of the oblast, Odessa). 
  Note: An asterisk (^) indicates the two municipalities and nine raions which previously constituted Izmail Oblast until that former oblast's merger with Odessa Oblast on 15 February 1954; these areas lie to the west of the Dniester River, and formerly constituted the territory known as the Budjak (southern Bessarabia).
  Note: Asterisks (*) Though the administrative center of the rayon is housed in the city/town that it is named after, cities do not answer to the rayon authorities only towns do; instead they are directly subordinated to the oblast government and therefore are not counted as part of rayon statistics.
caption: Detailed map of Odessa Oblast
exif: {"Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image ExifOffset": "2110", "Image Padding": "[]", "EXIF Padding": "[]"}