In Ukraine, the Codifier of administrative-territorial units and territories of territorial communities (), for short KATOTTH () is a national register of the

administrative divisions of Ukraine The administrative divisions of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Адміністрати́вний у́стрій Украї́ни, tr. ''Administratyvnyi ustrii Ukrainy'') are subnational administrative divisions within the geographical area of Ukraine un ...

and the territory of hromadas (communities) of the country, introduced on 26 November 2020 in accordnace with an edict of Ministry of Communities and Territories Development to replace the previous classification of objects of the administrative-territorial system of Ukraine (KOATUU) system. It is a consequence of the administrative reforms of the country that began in 2015, in which settlements in neighboring village, settlement, and city councils were gradually united into territorial hromadas, and the number of

raions A raion (also spelt rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states. The term is used for both a type of subnational entity and a division of a city. The word is from the French (meaning 'honeycomb, department'), and is com ...

(districts) was reduced from 490 to 136.

Structure

The administrative-territorial units are divided into five levels: # First level: the

oblast An oblast (; ; Cyrillic (in most languages, including Russian and Ukrainian): , Bulgarian: ) is a type of administrative division of Belarus, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Ukraine, as well as the Soviet Union and the Kingdom of ...

autonomous republic An autonomous republic is a type of administrative division similar to a province or state. A significant number of autonomous republics can be found within the successor states of the Soviet Union, but the majority are located within Russia. Man ...

, or

city with special status City with special status ( uk, місто зі спеціальним статусом, misto zi spetsial'nym statusom), formerly "city of republican subordinance", is a type of first-level administrative division of Ukraine. Kyiv and Sevastopol ...

# Second level: the

raion A raion (also spelt rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states. The term is used for both a type of subnational entity and a division of a city. The word is from the French (meaning 'honeycomb, department'), and is co ...

# Third level: the

hromada A hromada ( uk, територіальна громада, lit=territorial community, translit=terytorialna hromada) is a basic unit of administrative division in Ukraine, similar to a municipality. It was established by the Government of Ukra ...

# Fourth level: the specific locality; cities, villages, settlements # Additional level:

city districts A City district is a designated administrative division that is generally managed by a local government. It is used to divide a city into several administrative units. City districts are used in Russia (raion), Pakistan and Croatia ( hr, gradsk ...

(including in cities with special status) The units are also divided by category, each with its own one-letter abbreviation in the

Latin alphabet The Latin alphabet or Roman alphabet is the collection of letters originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language. Largely unaltered with the exception of extensions (such as diacritics), it used to write English and the o ...

: * O: oblast or autonomous republic; * K: city with special status * P: raion * H: hromada * M: city * T:

urban-type settlement Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...

* C: village * X:

rural-type settlement The definition of a rural settlement depends on the country, in some countries, a rural settlement is any settlement in the areas defined as rural by a governmental office, e.g., by the national census bureau. This may include even rural towns. ...

* B: city district The code itself takes the form: UA, ОО, РР, ГГГ, ППП, ММ, УУУУУ *''UA'' is just "UA", the

ISO 3166-1 ISO 3166-1 (''Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 1: Country codes'') is a standard defining codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest. It ...

code for Ukraine *''OO'' is the code of the first-level division *''РР'' is the code of the second-level division *''ГГГ'' is the code of the third-level division *''ППП'' is the code of the locality *''ММ'' is the code of the city district *''УУУУУ'' is a

unique key In relational database management systems, a unique key is a candidate key that is not the primary key of the relation. All the candidate keys of a relation can uniquely identify the records of the relation, but only one of them is used as the prima ...

of the object

Examples

* UA74000000000025378;

Chernihiv Oblast Chernihiv Oblast ( uk, Черні́гівська о́бласть, translit=Chernihivska oblast; also referred to as Chernihivshchyna, uk, Черні́гівщина, translit=Chernihivshchyna) is an oblast (province) of northern Ukraine. T ...

* UA46140000000036328; Yavoriv Raion, Lviv Oblast * UA71020270000021083; * UA32120070080094229; The village * UA80000000000210193;

Darnytskyi District Darnytskyi District ( uk, Дарницький район, ), is an urban district of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. It is the southeastern district of Kyiv located on the left bank of Dnipro river. It borders the Holosiivskyi District of the city ...

, Kyiv

References

{{Reflist Geocodes Administrative divisions of Ukraine

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