{{Short description|Oblast (region) of Ukraine}} {{more citations needed|date=April 2023}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox settlement | name = Poltava Oblast | native_name = Полтавська область | native_name_lang = uk | official_name = Poltavska oblast<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Syvak |first1=Nina |last2=Ponomarenko |first2=Valerii |last3=Khodzinska |first3=Olha |last4=Lakeichuk |first4=Iryna |date=2011 |editor-last=Veklych |editor-first=Lesia |others=scientific consultant Iryna Rudenko; reviewed by Nataliia Kizilowa; translated by Olha Khodzinska |title=Toponymic Guidelines for Map and Other Editors for International Use |url=https://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/UNGEGN/docs/Toponymic%20guidelines%20PDF/Ukraine/Verstka.pdf |page=20 |access-date=2020-10-06 |website=United Nations Statistics Division |publisher=DerzhHeoKadastr and Kartographia |publication-place=Kyiv |isbn=978-966-475-839-7 |archive-date=2021-01-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125171426/https://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/ungegn/docs/Toponymic%20guidelines%20PDF/Ukraine/Verstka.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> | nickname = {{lang|uk|Полтавщина}} ({{Transliteration|uk|Poltavshchyna}}) | settlement_type = Oblast | image_skyline = | image_alt = | image_caption = | image_flag = Flag_of_Poltava_Oblast.svg | flag_size = 125px | flag_alt = Flag of Poltava Oblast | image_shield = Coat_of_Arms_of_Poltava_Oblast.svg | shield_alt = Coat of arms of Poltava Oblast | image_map = Poltava in Ukraine.svg | mapsize = 280px | map_alt = | map_caption = | image_map1 = {{Maplink|frame=yes|plain=yes|frame-width=280|frame-height=330|frame-align=center|type=shape-inverse|stroke-color=#000000|stroke-width=4|fill=#000000|fill-opacity=0|zoom=7|frame-latitude=49.68124|frame-longitude=33.82527}} | mapsize1 = 200px | map_caption1 = Interactive map of Poltava Oblast in Ukraine | coordinates = {{coord|49|35|22|N|34|33|05|E|region:UA_type:adm1st|display=inline,title}} | coor_pinpoint = | coordinates_footnotes = | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = {{UKR}} | parts_type = Largest cities | parts_style = para | p1 = | established_title = | established_date = | seat_type = Administrative center | seat = Poltava | leader_title = Governor | leader_name = Vitaliy Dyakivnych | leader_party = | leader_title1 = Oblast council | leader_name1 = 84 seats | leader_title2 = Chairperson | leader_name2 = Oleksandr Bilenky | unit_pref = Metric | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = 28847<ref name="ua2022estimate"/> | area_total_sq_mi = 11138 | area_land_km2 = | area_water_km2 = | area_water_percent = | area_rank = Ranked 6th | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = | population_footnotes = <ref name="ua2022estimate"/> | population_total = 1352283 {{decrease}} | population_rank = Ranked 12th | population_as_of = 2022 | population_blank1_title = Annual growth | population_blank1 = | population_density_km2 = auto | demographics_type1 = GDP | demographics1_footnotes = <ref>{{Cite web|title=Валовий регіональний продукт|url=https://ukrstat.gov.ua/druk/publicat/kat_u/2023/05/zb_vrp_2021.xlsx}}</ref> | demographics1_title1 = Total | demographics1_info1 = ₴ 267 billion<br />(€6.9 billion) | demographics1_title2 = Per capita | demographics1_info2 = ₴ 195,825<br />(€5,100) | blank5_name_sec1 = HDI (2022) | blank5_info_sec1 = 0.727<ref>{{Cite web|title= Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab |url= https://globaldatalab.org/shdi/table/shdi/UKR/?levels=1+4&years=2022&interpolation=0&extrapolation=0 |website=hdi.globaldatalab.org|language=en}}</ref><br />{{color|#0c0|high}} | blank_name_sec1 = Raions | blank_info_sec1 = 4 | blank1_name_sec1 = Cities | blank1_info_sec1 = 15 | timezone1 = EET | utc_offset1 = +2 | timezone1_DST = EEST | utc_offset1_DST = +3 | postal_code_type = Postal code | postal_code = 36000-38999 | area_code_type = Area code | area_code = +380-53 | iso_code = UA-53 | registration_plate_type = Vehicle registration | registration_plate = ВІ, НІ | blank_name_sec2 = FIPS 10-4 | blank_info_sec2 = UP18 | blank1_name_sec2 = NUTS statistical regions of Ukraine | blank1_info_sec2 = UA11 | website = {{URL|http://oblrada-pl.gov.ua/}} }} '''Poltava Oblast''' ({{langx|uk|Полтавська область|Poltavska oblast}}), also referred to as '''Poltavshchyna''' ({{langx|uk|Полтавщина|link=no}}), is an oblast (province) of central Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Poltava. Most of its territory was part of the southern regions of the Cossack Hetmanate. Population: {{Ua-pop-est2022|1,352,283|punct=.}}

Three other important cities in the oblast are Horishni Plavni, Kremenchuk, and Lubny.

==History== The Poltava Oblast was established on 22 September 1937 by a resolution of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union. It was based mostly on rayons (districts) that were part of Kharkiv Oblast, with some from Kyiv Oblast. The region approximately corresponds to the earlier Poltava Governorate (1802–1925).

During the Nazi Germany occupation in 1941–43, most of the region belonged to Kiew Generalbezirke (general district), while the rest was part of the German military rear area.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}} After the withdrawal of German forces, the region was reinstated almost to the same borders.{{Citation needed|date=September 2025}} In the 1950s it lost some of its territories to the newly created Cherkasy Oblast.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Law |first=Gwillim |title=Administrative Subdivisions of Countries: A Comprehensive World Reference, 1900 through 1998 |date=2010 |publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers |isbn=978-1-4766-0447-3 |location=Jefferson}}</ref> Some were submerged with the creation of the Kremenchuk Reservoir in 1959.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}} In 2020, as part of a general Ukrainian administrative reform, Poltava Oblast reduced the number of its raions by increasing them in size.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}}

During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the town of Myrhorod was bombed. However, there has been no ground fighting and the province remains completely under Ukrainian control.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}}

==Geography==

Poltava Oblast is situated in the central part of Ukraine. Located on the left bank of the Dnieper, the Poltava region was part of the Cossack Hetmanate. It has an area of 28,800&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>. The oblast borders Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovohrad, Cherkasy and Kyiv oblasts. The oblast does not contain any notable landforms apart from the Dnieper river, the land is gently undulating.

==Demographics== According to the 2001 Ukrainian census, ethnic Ukrainians accounted for 91.4% of the population of Poltava Oblast, and ethnic Russians for 7.2%.<ref>{{in lang|uk}} [http://pop-stat.mashke.org/ukraine-ethnic2001.htm Етнічний склад населення України, 2001 рік]</ref><ref>[http://db.ukrcensus.gov.ua/MULT/Database/Census/databasetree_en.asp Банк даних, перепис 2001 року]</ref>

{{As of|2018|||df=US}}, its population was 1,400,000 and population density was 49 people per 1&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://ukrainetrek.com/poltava-oblast |title=Poltava Oblast, Ukraine Travel Guide |website=ukrainetrek.com |access-date=2020-01-09 |archive-date=2019-09-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190904215559/https://ukrainetrek.com/poltava-oblast |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Language === {{See also|Languages of Ukraine}} [[File:UkraineNativeLanguagesCensus2001detailed-en.png|thumb|right|400px|According to the 2001 Ukrainian census, Ukrainian was the native language for over 90% of Poltava Oblast's population: it was the dominant language in all of the city, town, and village councils of the oblast.]] Due to the Russification of Ukraine during the Soviet era, the share of Ukrainian speakers in the population of Poltava Oblast gradually decreased, while the share of Russian speakers increased.<ref>{{cite web |language=ru |url=https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/568412 |title=Динамика численности этнических украинцев в УССР: на основе итогов Всесоюзных переписей населения 1959 г., 1970 г. и 1979 г. |access-date=2024-08-03 |archive-date=2024-06-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240629092655/https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/568412 |url-status=live }}</ref> Native language of the population of Poltava Oblast according to the results of population censuses:<ref>Итоги Всесоюзной переписи населения 1959 года: Украинская ССР, стр. 168—193</ref><ref>Численность и состав населения СССР: по данным Всесоюзной переписи населения 1979 года. Центральное статистическое управление СССР, 1984</ref><ref>''Чорний С.'' Національний склад населення України в ХХ сторіччі (2001)</ref><ref>Итоги Всесоюзной переписи населения 1970 года. Том IV — М., Статистика, 1973</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=|language=uk |url=http://2001.ukrcensus.gov.ua/results/nationality_population/nationality_popul1/ |url-status=live |title=Всеукраїнський перепис населення 2001. Розподіл населення за національністю та рідною мовою |access-date=2014-08-21 |archive-date=2019-10-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191024043444/http://2001.ukrcensus.gov.ua/results/nationality_population/nationality_popul1/ }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=|language=|url=http://database.ukrcensus.gov.ua/MULT/Dialog/varval.asp?ma=19A050501_021&ti=19A050501_021.%20%D0%EE%E7%EF%EE%E4%B3%EB%20%ED%E0%F1%E5%EB%E5%ED%ED%FF%20%E7%E0%20%ED%E0%F6%B3%EE%ED%E0%EB%FC%ED%B3%F1%F2%FE%20%F2%E0%20%F0%B3%E4%ED%EE%FE%20%EC%EE%E2%EE%FE%20%280%2C1%29&path=..%2FDatabase%2FCensus%2F05%2F01%2F&lang=1&multilang=uk |url-status=live |title=Перепис 1989. Розподіл населення за національністю та рідною мовою (0,1) |access-date=2022-03-19 |archive-date=2020-10-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029090750/http://database.ukrcensus.gov.ua/MULT/Dialog/varval.asp?ma=19A050501_021&ti=19A050501_021.%20%D0%EE%E7%EF%EE%E4%B3%EB%20%ED%E0%F1%E5%EB%E5%ED%ED%FF%20%E7%E0%20%ED%E0%F6%B3%EE%ED%E0%EB%FC%ED%B3%F1%F2%FE%20%F2%E0%20%F0%B3%E4%ED%EE%FE%20%EC%EE%E2%EE%FE%20%280%2C1%29&path=..%2FDatabase%2FCensus%2F05%2F01%2F&lang=1&multilang=uk }}</ref> {| class="standard sortable" ! ||1959||1970||1989||2001 |- | Ukrainian||92.1%||90.3%||85.9%||90.0% |- | Russian||7.2%||9.1%||13.2%||9.5% |- | Other||0.7%||0.6%||0.9%||0.5% |}

Native language of the population of the raions, cities and city councils of Poltava Oblast according to the 2001 Ukrainian census:<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://db.ukrcensus.gov.ua/MULT/Dialog/varval.asp?ma=19A050501_021_053&ti=19A050501_021_053.%20Distribution%20of%20the%20population%20by%20nationality%20and%20native%20language,%20Poltavska%20oblast%20(2)&path=../Database/Census/05/02/02/&lang=2&multilang=en |title=Розподіл населення за національністю та рідною мовою, Полтавська область |access-date=2024-04-02 |archive-date=2024-04-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240402124123/http://db.ukrcensus.gov.ua/MULT/Dialog/varval.asp?ma=19A050501_021_053&ti=19A050501_021_053.%20Distribution%20of%20the%20population%20by%20nationality%20and%20native%20language,%20Poltavska%20oblast%20(2)&path=../Database/Census/05/02/02/&lang=2&multilang=en |url-status=live }}</ref> {| class="standard sortable" ! ||Ukrainian||Russian |- | '''Poltava Oblast''' ||'''90.0%'''||'''9.5%''' |- | City of Poltava ||85.4%||14.1% |- | City of Kremenchuk ||75.5%||23.9% |- | City of Lubny ||91.1%||8.6% |- | City of Myrhorod ||88.3%||11.3% |- | Komsomolsk (city council) ||73.2%||26.3% |- | Velyka Bahachka Raion ||96.7%||2.8% |- | Hadiach Raion ||96.9%||2.8% |- | Hlobyne Raion ||95.9%||3.4% |- | Hrebinka Raion ||95.8%||3.6% |- | Dykanka Raion ||95.3%||3.9% |- | Zinkiv Raion ||97.0%||2.3% |- | Karlivka Raion ||95.9%||3.4% |- | Kobeliaky Raion ||96.0%||3.3% |- | Kozelshchyna Raion ||96.0%||3.4% |- | Kotelva Raion ||97.2%||2.4% |- | Kremenchuk Raion<br />(in pre-2020 borders) ||93.8%||5.6% |- | Lokhvytsia Raion ||96.9%||2.7% |- | Lubny Raion<br />(in pre-2020 borders) ||97.5%||2.1% |- | Mashivka Raion ||95.4%||3.9% |- | Myrhorod Raion<br />(in pre-2020 borders) ||97.5%||2.3% |- | Novi Sanzhary Raion ||95.9%||3.4% |- | Orzhytsia Raion ||97.5%||2.1% |- | Pyriatyn Raion ||94.8%||4.8% |- | Poltava Raion<br />(in pre-2020 borders) ||93.8%||5.7% |- | Reshetylivka Raion ||96.4%||2.7% |- | Semenivka Raion ||97.3%||2.2% |- | Khorol Raion ||97.3%||2.5% |- | Chornukhy Raion ||97.9%||1.9% |- | Chutove Raion ||95.2%||4.0% |- | Shyshaky Raion ||96.7%||2.5% |} {{clear}} Ukrainian is the only official language on the whole territory of Poltava Oblast.<ref>{{cite web |language =uk |url=https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/2704-19 |title=Про забезпечення функціонування української мови як державної |access-date=2020-03-25 |archive-date=2020-05-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200502182619/https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/2704-19 |url-status=live }}</ref>

According to a poll conducted by ''Rating'' from 16 November to 10 December 2018 as part of the project «Portraits of Regions», 80% of the residents of Poltava Oblast believed that the Ukrainian language should be the only state language on the entire territory of Ukraine. 9% believed that Ukrainian should be the only state language, while Russian should be the second official language in some regions of the country. 8% believed that Russian should become the second state language of the country. 3% found it difficult to answer.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ratinggroup.ua/files/ratinggroup/reg_files/rg_40000_portraits_of_the_regions_122018_press.pdf |title="ПОРТРЕТИ РЕГІОНІВ": ПІДСУМКИ. Зведені дані, порівняльний аналіз між областями |publisher=Рейтинг|date=2018-12-26|language=uk}}</ref>

On 3 December 2024, Poltava Oblast Council approved the «Programme for the Development and Functioning of the Ukrainian Language as the State Language in All Spheres of Public Life in Poltava Oblast for 2025—2030», the main objectives of which are to strengthen the positions of the Ukrainian language in various spheres of public life in the oblast and to Ukrainianize the refugees from other regions of Ukraine.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://np.pl.ua/2024/12/funktsionuvannia-krytychnoi-infrastruktury-reorhanizatsiia-msek-movna-prohrama-vidbulasia-sesiia-poltavskoi-oblasnoi-rady/|title=Функціонування критичної інфраструктури, реорганізація МСЕК, "мовна" програма: відбулася сесія Полтавської обласної ради|publisher=Новини Полтавщини|date=2022-12-03}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://oblrada-pl.gov.ua/sites/default/files/field/docs/7_21.pdf|title=Про Програму розвитку та функціонування української мови як державної в усіх сферах суспільного життя у Полтавській області на 2025–2030 роки|publisher=Полтавська обласна рада|language=uk}}</ref>

According to the research of the ''Content Analysis Centre'', conducted from 15 August to 15 September 2024, the topic of which was the ratio of Ukrainian and Russian languages in the Ukrainian segment of social media, 76.0% of posts from Poltava Oblast were written in Ukrainian (63.9% in 2023, 60.0% in 2022, 15.5% in 2020), while 24.0% were written in Russian (36.1% in 2023, 40.0% in 2022, 84.5% in 2020).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ms.detector.media/internet/post/36568/2024-10-28-chastka-dopysiv-ukrainskoyu-movoyu-v-sotsmerezhakh-zrosla-do-56-tsentr-kontent-analizu/ |title=Частка дописів українською мовою в соцмережах зросла до 56 %, — Центр контент-аналізу |date=2024-10-28 |language=uk}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title="Радикальний прогрес". У соцмережах української стало набагато більше, — дослідження |url=https://texty.org.ua/fragments/111001/radykalnyj-prohres-u-socmerezhah-ukrayinskoyi-stalo-nabahato-bilshe-doslidzhennya/ |access-date=2023-12-11 |archive-date=2023-12-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231211202240/https://texty.org.ua/fragments/111001/radykalnyj-prohres-u-socmerezhah-ukrayinskoyi-stalo-nabahato-bilshe-doslidzhennya/ |url-status=live |language=uk}}</ref>

After Ukraine declared independence in 1991, Poltava Oblast, as well as Ukraine as a whole, experienced a gradual Ukrainization of the education system, which had been Russified<ref>Barbara A. Anderson and Brian D. Silver, "Equality, Efficiency, and Politics in Soviet Bilingual Education Policy, 1934-1980," American Political Science Review 78 (December 1984): 1019-1039.</ref> during the Soviet era. Dynamics of the ratio of the languages of instruction in general secondary education institutions in Poltava Oblast:<ref>«Статистичний щорічник України за 1998 рік» — К., 1999. {{cite web |url=https://pics.livejournal.com/alina_ma/pic/000ghttb |title=Джерело |website=pics.livejournal.com |access-date=2024-12-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=|url=https://ukrstat.gov.ua/druk/st_sc/SEU2008_u.zip |title=Збірник «Статистичний щорічник України» за 2008 рік |publisher=Державна служба статистики України |language=uk |access-date=2024-08-10 |archive-date=2022-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220408201718/http://ukrstat.gov.ua/druk/st_sc/SEU2008_u.zip |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=|url=https://ukrstat.gov.ua/druk/publicat/kat_u/2013/sb/10_13/sz_Ukr_2012.zip |title=Збірник «Статистичний щорічник України» за 2012 рік |publisher=Державна служба статистики України |language=uk |access-date=2024-08-10 |archive-date=2024-08-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240807143246/https://ukrstat.gov.ua/druk/publicat/kat_u/2013/sb/10_13/sz_Ukr_2012.zip |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=|url=https://ukrstat.gov.ua/druk/publicat/kat_u/2019/zb/11/zb_yearbook_2018.pdf |title=Збірник «Статистичний щорічник України» за 2018 рік |publisher=Державна служба статистики України |language=uk |access-date=2024-08-10 |archive-date=2024-08-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240803223353/https://ukrstat.gov.ua/druk/publicat/kat_u/2019/zb/11/zb_yearbook_2018.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ukrstat.gov.ua/operativ/operativ2022/osv/osv_rik/zso21_ue.xlsx |script-title=uk:Загальна середня освіта в Україні у 2021 році |language=uk |script-website=uk:Державна служба статистики України |access-date=2024-07-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240707121443/https://www.ukrstat.gov.ua/operativ/operativ2022/osv/osv_rik/zso21_ue.xlsx |archive-date=2024-07-07 |url-status=live}} — {{cite web |url=https://www.ukrstat.gov.ua/operativ/operativ2022/osv/osv_rik/arch_pto_u.htm |script-title=uk:Сайт Державної служби статистики України |language=uk |script-website=uk:Державна служба статистики України |access-date=2024-06-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240604201459/https://www.ukrstat.gov.ua/operativ/operativ2022/osv/osv_rik/arch_pto_u.htm |archive-date=2024-06-04 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ukrstat.gov.ua/operativ/operativ2023/osv/osv_rik/zso22_ue.xlsx |script-title=uk:Загальна середня освіта в Україні у 2022 році |language=uk |script-website=uk:Державна служба статистики України |access-date=2024-06-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240626161348/https://www.ukrstat.gov.ua/operativ/operativ2023/osv/osv_rik/zso22_ue.xlsx |archive-date=2024-06-26 |url-status=live}} — {{cite web |url=https://www.ukrstat.gov.ua/operativ/operativ2022/osv/osv_rik/arch_pto_u.htm |script-title=uk:Сайт Державної служби статистики України |language=uk |script-website=uk:Державна служба статистики України |date=|access-date=2024-06-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240604201459/https://www.ukrstat.gov.ua/operativ/operativ2022/osv/osv_rik/arch_pto_u.htm |archive-date=2024-06-04 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://stat.gov.ua/sites/default/files/2024-02/Збірник%20Статистични��%20щорічник%20України%202022%20рік.pdf |title=Збірник «Статистичний щорічник України» за 2022 рік |publisher=Державна служба статистики України |language=uk |access-date=2024-08-10 |archive-date=2024-08-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240807143242/https://stat.gov.ua/sites/default/files/2024-02/Збірник%20Статистичний%20щорічник%20України%202022%20рік.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref> {| class="standard" |- | Language of instruction, <br />% of pupils || 1991—<br />1992 || 1992—<br />1993 || 1993—<br />1994 || 1994—<br />1995 || 1995—<br />1996 || 2000—<br />2001 || 2005—<br />2006 || 2007—<br />2008 || 2010—<br />2011 || 2012—<br />2013 || 2015—<br />2016 || 2018—<br />2019 || 2021—<br />2022 || 2022—<br />2023 |- | Ukrainian|| 74.3% || 74.4% || 77.5% || 80.6% || 83.0% || 93.0% || 97.0% || 97.0% || 98.0% || 98.0% || 99.0% || 99.0% || 99.96% || 100.0% |- | Russian || 25.7% || 25.6% || 22.5% || 19.4% || 17.0% || 7.0% || 3.0% || 3.0% || 2.0% || 2.0% || 1.0% || 1.0% || 0.04% || — |- |}

According to the State Statistics Service of Ukraine, in the 2023—2024 school year, all 134,575 pupils in general secondary education institutions in Poltava Oblast were studying in classes where Ukrainian was the language of instruction.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ukrstat.gov.ua/operativ/operativ2023/osv/osv_rik/zso23_ue.xlsx |title=Загальна середня освіта в Україні у 2023 році |language=uk |website=www.ukrstat.gov.ua |date=|access-date=2024-06-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240601143959/https://www.ukrstat.gov.ua/operativ/operativ2023/osv/osv_rik/zso23_ue.xlsx |archive-date=2024-06-01 |url-status=live}} — {{cite web |author=|url=https://www.ukrstat.gov.ua/operativ/operativ2022/osv/osv_rik/arch_pto_u.htm |title=Сайт Державної служби статистики України |language=uk |website=www.ukrstat.gov.ua |date=|access-date=2024-06-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240604201459/https://www.ukrstat.gov.ua/operativ/operativ2022/osv/osv_rik/arch_pto_u.htm |archive-date=2024-06-04 |url-status=live}}</ref>

===Age structure=== : ''0–14 years:'' 13.2% {{increase}} (male 99,444/female 93,949) : ''15–64 years:'' 69.9% {{steady}} (male 483,389/female 530,911) : ''65 years and over:'' 16.9% {{decrease}} (male 81,435/female 164,861) (2013 official)

===Median age=== : ''total:'' 41.4 years {{increase}} : ''male:'' 38.0 years {{increase}} : ''female:'' 44.7 years {{increase}} (2013 official)

==Points of interest== thumb|National Museum of Ukrainian Pottery in Opishnia The following historic-cultural sites were nominated for the Seven Wonders of Ukraine:{{Citation needed|date=May 2025}} *Gogol Museum-Reserve *Kotliarevsky Museum and Manor *Saint Nicholas Church *Poltava Museum of Local Lore *Exaltation of the Holy Cross Monastery Other points of interest include the site of the Battle of Poltava and the Bilsk hillfort.{{Citation needed|date=May 2025}} Opishnia is a centre for the production of decorative ceramics and is the location of the {{Ill|National Museum-Reserve of Ukrainian Pottery in Opishnia|lt=National Museum-Reserve of Ukrainian Pottery|uk|Національний музей-заповідник українського гончарства в Опішному}}.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Oposhnya. Pottery capital of Ukraine {{!}} Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute |url=https://kpi.ua/en/opishne-photo |access-date=2025-05-06 |website=kpi.ua}}</ref>

==Economy==

===Industry===

The oblast is a center of Ukraine's oil and natural gas industry, with many wells and pipelines situated here. There is a major oil refinery plant in the city of Kremenchuk. Important iron ore processing facilities also present. In general, there are 374 large industrial organization and 618 small industrial organizations.{{Citation needed|date=December 2020}}

===Agriculture===

In 1999 the gross grain yield was about 14,529 thousand tons, sugar beets – 1,002,900 tons, sunflower seeds – 166,200 tons, potatoes – 279,900 tons. The oblast also produced 120,500 tons of meat, 645,900 tons of milk and 423,200,00 eggs.{{Citation needed|date=December 2020}} At the beginning of 1999 there were 1,311 registered farms in the region.{{Citation needed|date=December 2020}}

==Administrative divisions== thumb|Raions of Poltava Oblast as of August 2020. {{main|Administrative divisions of Poltava Oblast}} {{Update|section|date=May 2023}} The oblast is divided into 4 districts and 60 hromadas.

The local administration of the oblast is controlled by the Poltava Oblast Rada. The governor of the oblast is the Poltava Oblast Rada speaker, appointed by the President of Ukraine.

The following data incorporates the number of each type of administrative divisions of the Poltava Oblast:

*Administrative centre – 1 (Poltava) *Raions – 4 **Hromadas – 60 On 18 July 2020, the number of raions was reduced to four.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2020-07-18 |title=Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ. |language=uk |website=Голос України |url=http://www.golos.com.ua/article/333466 |access-date=2020-10-03}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Нові райони: карти + склад |url=https://www.minregion.gov.ua/press/news/novi-rajony-karty-sklad/ |publisher=Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України |language=Ukrainian}}</ref> These are:

# Kremenchuk Raion (Кременчуцький район), the center is in the city of Kremenchuk; # Lubny Raion (Лубенський район), the center is in the city of Lubny; # Myrhorod Raion (Миргородський район), the center is in the city of Myrhorod; # Poltava Raion (Полтавський район), the center is in the city of Poltava.

=== Until 2020 === {| class="sortable wikitable" |- ! Name ||Ukrainian name ||Area <br>(km<sup>2</sup>) ||Population<br>census 2015<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pl.ukrstat.gov.ua/ |website=UkrStat |title=Population Quantity |language=uk |access-date=15 January 2016 |archive-date=30 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151230042520/http://pl.ukrstat.gov.ua/ |url-status=live }}</ref>||Admin. center||Urban population |- |Poltava ||Полта́ва (місто) || align="right" |103 || align="right" |293,945 ||Poltava (city) ||293,945 |- |Horishni Plavni ||Горішні Плавні (місто) || align="right" |34 || align="right" |54,701 ||Horishni Plavni (city) ||52,144 |- |Kremenchuk ||Кременчу́к (місто) || align="right" |96 || align="right" |223,942 ||Kremenchuk (city) ||223,942 |- |Lubny ||Лубни (місто) || align="right" |46 || align="right" |46,820 ||Lubny (city) ||46,820 |- |Myrhorod ||Миргород (місто) || align="right" |20 || align="right" |40,440 ||Myrhorod (city) ||40,440 |- |Chornukhy Raion ||Чорнухинський район || align="right" |682 || align="right" |11,485 ||Chornukhy ||2,581 |- |Chutove Raion ||Чутівський район || align="right" |861 || align="right" |22,976 ||Chutove ||9,468 |- |Dykanka Raion ||Диканський район || align="right" |679 || align="right" |18,993 ||Dykanka ||7,804 |- |Hadiach Raion ||Гадяцький район || align="right" |1,595 || align="right" |29,767 ||Hadiach ||24,005 |- |Hlobyne Raion ||Глобинський район || align="right" |2,500 || align="right" |44,007 ||Hlobyne ||16,182 |- |Hrebinka Raion ||Гребінківський район || align="right" |595 || align="right" |22,589 ||Hrebinka ||10,926 |- |Karlivka Raion ||Карлівський район || align="right" |854 || align="right" |34,121 ||Karlivka ||14,997 |- |Khorol Raion ||Хорольський район || align="right" |1,062 || align="right" |34,670 ||Khorol ||13,304 |- |Kobeliaky Raion ||Кобеляцький район || align="right" |1,823 || align="right" |42,419 ||Kobeliaky ||14,982 |- |Kotelva Raion ||Котелевський район || align="right" |800 || align="right" |19,674 ||Kotelva ||12,406 |- |Kozelshchyna Raion ||Козельщинський район || align="right" |930 || align="right" |19,575 ||Kozelshchyna ||5,981 |- |Kremenchuk Raion ||Кременчуцький район || align="right" |1,200 || align="right" |39,699 ||Kremenchuk (city) ||N/A * |- |Lokhvytsia Raion ||Лохвицький район || align="right" |1,300 || align="right" |43,274 ||Lokhvytsia ||20,187 |- |Lubny Raion ||Лубенський район || align="right" |1,378 || align="right" |31,983 ||Lubny (city) ||N/A * |- |Mashivka Raion ||Машівський район || align="right" |889 || align="right" |19,609 ||Mashivka ||3,815 |- |Myrhorod Raion ||Миргородський район || align="right" |1,540 || align="right" |32,115 ||Myrhorod (city) ||N/A * |- |Novi Sanzhary Raion ||Новосанжарський район || align="right" |1,300 || align="right" |34,620 ||Novi Sanzhary ||8,375 |- |Orzhytsia Raion ||Оржицький район || align="right" |1,000 || align="right" |24228 ||Orzhytsia ||5,369 |- |Poltava Raion ||Полтавський район || align="right" |1,259 || align="right" |67,095 ||Poltava (city) ||N/A * |- |Pyriatyn Raion ||Пирятинський район || align="right" |864 || align="right" |31,809 ||Pyriatyn ||15,796 |- |Reshetylivka Raion ||Решетилівський район || align="right" |1,009 || align="right" |26,399 ||Reshetylivka ||9,340 |- |Semenivka Raion ||Семенівський район || align="right" |1,300 || align="right" |25,456 ||Semenivka ||6,244 |- |Shyshaky Raion ||Шишацький район || align="right" |790 || align="right" |20,423 ||Shyshaky ||4,545 |- |Velyka Bahachka Raion ||Великобагачанський район || align="right" |1,000 || align="right" |25,145 ||Velyka Bahachka ||8,350 |- |Zinkiv Raion ||Зіньківський район || align="right" |1,360 || align="right" |34,700 ||Zinkiv ||15,179 |}

Note: Asterisks (*) Though the administrative center of the raion is housed in the city that it is named after, cities do not answer to the raion authorities only towns do; instead they are directly subordinated to the oblast government and therefore are not counted as part of raion statistics.

==Nomenclature==

Most of Ukraine's oblasts are named after their capital cities, officially referred to as "oblast centers" ({{langx|uk|обласний центр}}, translit. ''oblasnyi tsentr''). The name of each oblast is a relative adjective, formed by adding a feminine suffix to the name of respective center city: ''Poltava'' is the center of the ''Poltavs'ka oblast''' (Poltava Oblast). Most oblasts are also sometimes referred to in a feminine noun form, following the convention of traditional regional place names, ending with the suffix "-shchyna", as is the case with the Poltava Oblast, ''Poltavshchyna''.

{{See also |Romanization of Ukrainian}}

== Gallery == <gallery> File:Украина, Полтава - Корпусный сад 02.jpg|Corpus garden File:Фонтан біля Кредмашу.jpg|Kremenchuk File:Володимирський Майдан.jpg|Lubny File:Myrgorod-resort entrance.JPG|Myrhorod File:У центрі Гадяча.JPG|Hadiach File:Karlivka2.jpg|Karlivka File:Хорол. Успенська церква.JPG|Khorol File:Троїцька церква. Котельва.JPG|Kotelva File:Залізничний вокзал (Кременчук).jpg|Railway station in Kremenchuk File:Пам'ятник Загиблим у Великій Вітчизняній Війні. с. Оболонь. Полтавська область.jpg|Monument to those killed in the Second World War File:Russian Field Artillery - Detail of Diorama of Battle of Poltava - Battle of Poltava History Museum.jpg|Detail of Diorama of Battle of Poltava File:Deevka.jpg|Deivka </gallery>

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== * {{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Poltava (government) | volume= 22 |last1= Kropotkin |first1= Peter Alexeivitch |author1-link= Peter Kropotkin| last2= Bealby |first2= John Thomas| page = 13 |short= 1}} *[http://www.adm-pl.gov.ua/ State Administration of Poltava Region] – official site {{in lang|uk}} *[http://www.kmu.gov.ua/control/en/publish/article?art_id=117049&cat_id=32596 Information Card of the Region] – official site of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine

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