| 2001 | |
|---|---|
| Donetsk Region | 1 844 399 |
| Autonomous Republic of Crimea | 1 180 441 |
| Luhansk Region | 991 825 |
| Kharkiv Region | 742 025 |
| Dnipropetrovsk Region | 627 531 |
| Odessa Region | 508 537 |
| Zaporizhia Region | 476 748 |
| City of Kiev | 337 323 |
| City of Sevastopol | 269 953 |
| Mykolaiv Region | 177 530 |
| Kherson Region | 165 211 |
| Sumy Region | 121 655 |
| Poltava Region | 117 071 |
| Kiev Region | 109 322 |
| Lviv Region | 92 565 |
| Kirovohrad Region | 83 929 |
| Cherkasy Region | 75 577 |
| Zhytomyr Region | 68 851 |
| Vinnytsia Region | 67 501 |
| Chernihiv Region | 62 207 |
| Khmelnytskyi Region | 50 686 |
| Chernivtsi Region | 37 881 |
| Zakarpattia Region | 30 993 |
| Rivne Region | 30 129 |
| Volyn Region | 25 132 |
| Ivano-Frankivsk Region | 24 925 |
| Ternopil Region | 14 194 |