🇺🇦 Cities in Ukraine — API & JSON data

Geomelon's Ukraine coverage: 29,223 cities across 28 regions, with name translations in 42 languages — start with Kyiv, the country's largest city at 2,952,301 people.

Data updated: 2026-07-14

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Type to search Ukraine cities…

Top 10 cities by population

City	Region	Population
Kyiv	—	2,952,301
Kharkiv	Kharkiv Oblast	1,421,125
Odesa	Odesa Oblast	1,010,537
Dnipro	Dnipropetrovsk Oblast	968,502
Donetsk	—	901,645
Zaporizhzhia	Zaporizhzhia Oblast	710,052
Kryvyi Rih	Dnipropetrovsk Oblast	603,904
Sevastopol	Autonomous Republic of Crimea	485,386
Mykolaiv	Mykolaiv Oblast	470,011
Luhansk	Luhansk Oblast	403,938

Sample API response

GET /cities/search?countryCode=ua&sort=population_desc&limit=3

[
  {
    "id": "1fcebdf4-db49-4875-aa37-549ca9159361",
    "name": "Kyiv",
    "population": 2952301,
    "countryName": "Ukraine",
    "countryCode": "UA",
    "countryEmoji": "🇺🇦",
    "regionName": null
  },
  {
    "id": "21fca140-b929-436a-82ad-168a10e6a83d",
    "name": "Kharkiv",
    "population": 1421125,
    "countryName": "Ukraine",
    "countryCode": "UA",
    "countryEmoji": "🇺🇦",
    "regionName": "Kharkiv Oblast"
  },
  {
    "id": "3f9a84aa-46bb-4aa3-86fc-686111fd78e7",
    "name": "Odesa",
    "population": 1010537,
    "countryName": "Ukraine",
    "countryCode": "UA",
    "countryEmoji": "🇺🇦",
    "regionName": "Odesa Oblast"
  }
]

Try it

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://geomelon.p.rapidapi.com/cities/search?countryCode=ua&sort=population_desc&limit=10' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-host: geomelon.p.rapidapi.com' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-key: YOUR_API_KEY'

const res = await fetch(
  'https://geomelon.p.rapidapi.com/cities/search?countryCode=ua&sort=population_desc&limit=10',
  {
    headers: {
      'x-rapidapi-host': 'geomelon.p.rapidapi.com',
      'x-rapidapi-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
    },
  },
)
const cities = await res.json()

Multilingual city names

City names in Ukraine are available in 42 languages.

en: Kyiv
zh: 基輔
ar: كييف

Free dataset

Prefer a static file? Download 5,000 Ukraine cities as JSON (780 KB, no API key) from the Ukraine cities dataset page.

FAQ

How many cities in Ukraine does the API return?

Geomelon currently has 29,223 cities in Ukraine across 28 regions. Results are paginated, up to 100 per request.

Is there a free tier?

Yes. RapidAPI's free tier covers a fixed number of requests per month with no credit card required. There is also a free, no-key city-autocomplete endpoint (the demo above) for prefix search.

Can I get Ukraine city names in other languages?

Yes — city names in Ukraine are available in 42 languages. Pass the languages you want via the preferredLanguages parameter, most-preferred first.

Do I need an API key?

The main search and lookup endpoints require a free RapidAPI key. The prefix-search autocomplete endpoint used in the demo above is public and does not require a key.

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