Location Ukraine Number 1 | Created 1992 Government Supreme Council | |
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Category Subdivision of a unitary state | ||
Ukraine is administratively divided into 27 regions, 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.
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.
References
Autonomous republics of Ukraine Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA