Autonomous republic of Ukraine

Ukraine is administratively divided into 24 oblasts, one of which is an autonomous republic, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Its administrative status is recognized in the Ukrainian Constitution in Chapter X: Autonomous Republic of Crimea and is governed in accordance with laws passed by Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada.^[1] In 2014, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea was annexed by Russia as the Republic of Crimea.^[2] In 2016, the UN General Assembly reaffirmed non-recognition of the annexation and condemned "the temporary occupation of part of the territory of Ukraine—the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol".^[3][4]

ISO code[5]	Name	Flag	Coat of arms	Status	Capital	Area (sq mi)	Population
UA-43	Autonomous Republic of Crimea			Autonomous Republic	Simferopol	10,038	1,911,818

Autonomous republic of Ukraine
Sea of Azov Black Sea Dnieper • Chernihiv Chernivtsi Cherkasy Dnipropetrovsk Donetsk Ivan.-Fr. Kharkiv Kherson Kyiv Kirovohrad Khmel. Luhansk Lviv Mykolaiv Odesa Poltava Rivne Sumy Ternopil Vinnytsia Volyn Zakarpattia Zaporizhzhia Zhytomyr •Sevastopol Crimea Russia Belarus Poland Slov. Hung. Romania Moldova Serb.
Category	First-level subdivision of a unitary state
Location	Ukraine
Created	1992
Number	1
Government	Supreme Council

List of former republics

In the past, there were two autonomous soviet socialist republics within the general administrative division of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

Name	Time period	Flag	Coat of arms	Capital	Area (sq mi)	Population
Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic	1991–1992			Simferopol	10,070	2,183,000 (1989)
Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic	1924–1940			Chișinău (de jure)[nb 1]	3,100	572,339 (1940)

Notes

1. The official capital was stated to be Chișinău, but the autonomous republic was governed first from Balta, then Birzula and finally from Tiraspol.