Drill the map, not flashcards. Free, no account.
Loading game...
Can you locate all 28 provinces of Bulgaria?
Can you locate all 14 regions of Czechia?
Can you locate all 83 federal subjects of Russia?
Can you locate all 19 autonomous communities of Spain?
Something on this map looks wrong? Report a map issue
Ukraine is the largest country that lies wholly inside Europe, and it is divided the way its government counts it: 24 oblasts, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, and two cities with the rank of an oblast, Kyiv and Sevastopol. The oblast is the unit on a licence plate, a weather forecast and a news bulletin, and it is named for its capital city, which is most of what there is to learn. This page is the whole list, grouped the way the game groups it.
An oblast is the first tier of Ukrainian government, and the word is borrowed straight into English. Twenty-four of them cover the mainland, and three jurisdictions sit beside them at the same level: Crimea, an autonomous republic, and Kyiv and Sevastopol, which are cities with their own administrations rather than part of any oblast. Kyiv is a hole in the middle of Kyiv Oblast, and the game asks for them as two different answers: Kyiv City is the capital, and Kyiv Oblast is the ring around it. Both take a tap area, as does Sevastopol, so a click near the city counts for the city.
The map is drawn with Ukraine's internationally recognised borders, which include Crimea, Sevastopol and the parts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson that are under occupation. That is the line the rest of the catalogue uses, and the one the boundary file carries.
Almost every oblast takes its name from its chief city: Lviv Oblast from Lviv, Kharkiv Oblast from Kharkiv. The exceptions are the ones to learn separately. Volyn, Zakarpattia and Crimea are regions before they are cities, and Dnipropetrovsk is named for a city that now goes by Dnipro.
Each part can be switched on and off on its own in the start dialog, so the quickest way in is the western block, which has the most of them in the least room.
Kyiv is the capital and has its own status, so it is a separate answer from the oblast that surrounds it on every side. On the map it is a small shape inside Kyiv Oblast, and it takes a tap area so that it can be clicked without hitting the oblast around it.
Crimea is an autonomous republic, with Sevastopol beside it as a city of its own at the southwest tip. The game draws both inside Ukraine, which is where the international community places them, and asks for them separately.
The first tier of Ukrainian government, usually translated as region or province. Each is named for its chief city, apart from Volyn, Zakarpattia and Crimea.
Twenty-four, plus the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the two cities with special status, Kyiv and Sevastopol. This game asks for all 27.
Because they are different jurisdictions. Kyiv has a status of its own, and the oblast around it is governed separately from the city at its centre.
Yes. The game draws Ukraine's internationally recognised borders, which is the same line the rest of Mapity uses.
The small ones in the west, where Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi and Zakarpattia sit in a crowd, and the two cities that have to be told apart from the oblasts around them.
The tier below this one is Ukraine Raions, and its five parts are the five groups here, so it is the place to go once the oblasts are familiar.
