Sister cities of Kiev Oblast

Kyiv Oblast (Ukrainian: Київська область, translit. Kyivs’ka oblast’; also referred to as Kyivshchyna – Ukrainian: Київщина) is an oblast (province) in central Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Kyiv (Ukrainian: Київ, Kyiv), also being the capital of Ukraine. Despite being located in the center of the Kyiv Oblast, and hosting the governing bodies of the oblast, Kyiv itself is a self-governing city with special status and not under oblast jurisdiction.

The Kyiv Oblast neither corresponds nor is limited to the unofficially-designated Kyiv metropolitan area although significantly depending on the urban economy and transportation of the latter.

The largest city in the oblast, besides Kiev, is Bila Tserkva.

The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is technically located within the northernmost part of the Kyiv Oblast although it is prohibited from public and administered separately from the oblast.