Administrative division of Ukraine (1918)

Regions of the Ukrainian People's Republic
Zemlias in 1918
Category	Subdivision of a unitary state
Location	Ukrainian People's Republic
Created	1918
Number	32 (as of 1918)
Populations	~1 million
Subdivisions	volost

The system of administrative division of Ukraine in 1918 was inherited from the Russian Empire, and was based on the governorate division (also called province or government; Ukrainian: губернія, romanized: huberniia) with the smaller subdivisions district (povit) and rural district (volost).^[1] A new administrative reform was adopted by the Central Council of Ukraine on March 6, 1918 which saw restructuring the subdivision of Ukraine based on a new system of regions (zemlias) and abolishing the system of governorates and povits. Implementation of the new system was never fully realized and after the Skoropadsky's coup-d'etat on April 29, 1918 was abandoned.

Ukraine was divided into 32 regions with three cities that had status of a region (Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odesa).

• Kyiv with outskirts, to Irpin and Stuhna as well as 20 verst beyond Dnieper
• Derevlian Region (seat in Korosten), Radomyshl and Ovruch counties, Kyiv county without southern part and northern part of Rovno county
• Volyn (seat in Lutsk), Volodymyr, Lutsk, Kovel counties and parts of Dubno county
• Over Horyn (seat in Rivne), Rivne, Ostroh, Zaslav, Kremenets counties, southern part of Dubno county and western part of Starokostiantyniv county
• Bolokhiv Region (seat in Zhytomyr), Zhytomyr, Novohrad-Volynsky counties and parts of Berdychiv, Lityn, and Vinnytsia counties
• Over Ros (seat in Bila Tserkva), Vasylkiv, Skvyra, Tarashcha counties, southern part of Kyiv county and eastern part of Berdychiv county
• Cherkasy Region (seat in Cherkasy), Cherkasy, Kaniv, Chyhyryn counties and parts of Zvenyhorod county
• Over Boh (seat in Uman), Uman, Haisyn, and parts of Lypovets, Balta, Yelyzavethrad counties
• Podillia (seat in Kamianets-Podilsky), Kamianets, Proskuriv, Ushytsia counties and parts of Mohyliv and Starokostyantyniv counties
• Bratslav Region (seat in Vinnytsia), Vinnytsia, Bratslav counties and parts of Lityn, Lypovets, Mohyliv, and Yampil counties
• Over Dniester (seat in Balta), Olhopil, Tyraspil counties and parts of Yampil, Balta, and Ananiiv counties
• Over Sea (seat in Mykolaiv), Odesa county and parts of Ananiiv, Yelyzavethrad, and Kherson counties
• Odesa with outskirts, with territory up to the Dniester Estuary
• Nyz (seat in Yelyzavethrad), parts of Yelyzavethrad, Oleksandriia, Verkhniodniprovsk counties
• Sich (seat in Katerynoslav), Katerynoslav county, and parts of Verhnyodniprovsk, Kherson, Novomoskovsk, and Oleksandriya counties
• Zaporizhzhia (seat in Berdiansk), Melitopol and Berdyansk counties
• New Zaporizhzhia (seat in Kherson), Dnipro county and parts of Kherson county
• Azov Region (seat in Mariupol), Mariupol, Pavlohrad counties and parts of Oleksandrivsk county
• Cuman Region (seat in Bakhmut), Starobilsk, Slovianoserbsk, and Bakhmut counties
• Donets Region (seat in Sloviansk), Zmiiv, Izium, Vovchansk, Kupiansk counties and parts of Korocha and Bilhorod counties
• Over Don (seat in Ostrohozk), Novy Oskil, Biryuchansk, Ostrohozk, Bohuchar counties and parts of Korocha and Starobilsk counties
• Siveria Region (seat in Starodub), Mhlyn, Surazh, Novozybkiv, Starodub and Novhorod-Siversky counties
• Chernihiv Region (seat in Chernihiv), Chernihiv, Horodnia, Oster, Sosnytsia counties and parts of Kozelets, Nizhyn, and Borzna counties
• Pereiaslav Region (seat in Pryluky), Pereiaslav, Pryluky, Pyryatyn counties, and parts of Kozelets, Nizhyn, Borzna, and Zolotonosha counties
• Over Seim (seat in Konotop), Krolevets, Konotop, Hlukhiv, and Putyvl counties
• Over Sula (seat in Romny), Romny, Lokhvytsia, Hadiach counties, and parts of Lubny and Myrhorod counties
• Poltava Region (seat in Poltava), Poltava, Zinkiv, Kostiantyniv counties, and parts of Myrhorod, Khorol, Valky, Okhtyrka, and Bohodukhiv counties
• Samara Region (seat in Kremenchuk), Kremenchuk, Kobeliaky counties, and parts of Zolotonosha, Khorol, Novomoskovsk counties
• Sloboda Region (seat in Sumy), Sumy, Lebedyn, Sudzha, Hraivoron counties, and parts of Okhtyrka and Bohodukhiv counties
• Kharkiv with its county and parts of Valky and Bilhorod counties
• Podlasie Region (seat in Berestia), territory of the former Kholm Governorate
• Dregovich Region (seat in Mozyr), territory of Polissia Okruha

• Development of the administrative divisions of Ukraine
• Administrative divisions of Ukraine (1918–1925)
• Administrative divisions of Ukraine (1925–1932)

• Shemshuchenko, Yu. Administrative-territorial division in the UNR. Jurist Encyclopedia.