Kherson uezd Херсонскій уѣздъ
Uezd
Coat of arms
Location in the Kherson Governorate
Country	Russian Empire
Governorate	Kherson
Established	1776
Abolished	1923
Capital	Kherson
Area
• Total	19,553.04 km2 (7,549.47 sq mi)
Population  (1897)
• Total	587,804
• Density	30/km2 (78/sq mi)
• Urban	27.77%
• Rural	72.23%

The Kherson uezd^[a] was a county (uezd) of the Kherson Governorate of the Russian Empire, and then of the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Ukrainian SSR until the administrative reform of 1923. The uezd bordered the Odessa uezd to the west, the Elisavetgrad uezd to the northwest, the Aleksandriya uezd to the north, the Verkhnedneprovsk and Yekaterinoslav uezds of the Yekaterinoslav Governorate to the east, the Melitopol and Dneprovsk uezds of the Taurida Governorate, and the Black Sea to the south. The district was eponymously named for its administrative center, Kherson.

The subcounties (volosts) of the Kherson uezd in 1912 were as follows:^[1]

At the time of the Russian Empire Census on 28 January [O.S. 15 January] 1897, the Kherson uezd had a population of 587,804, including 302,002 men and 285,502 women. The majority of the population indicated Little Russian^[b] to be their mother tongue, with significant Russian, Jewish, and German speaking minorities.^[4]