Ghent is a home rule-class city along the south bank of the Ohio River in Carroll County, Kentucky, in the United States.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.73 square miles (1.9 km2), all land.

Ghent is on the opposite side of the Ohio River from Vevay, Indiana, but the towns are not linked by a bridge.

On January 17, 1839, the Kentucky General Assembly formally established the city of Ghent and appointed Theodoric Fisher, Samuel Sanders Jr., James Knox, John C. Lindsey, and Richard Sarlls as its trustees.

[7] In August 1864, in a skirmish during the Civil War in what was known as the Gex Landing Incident, members of the African-American United States Colored Troops and the United States Colored Cavalry engaged with CSA troops seeking to rescue local resident James Southard, a ferryman and Confederate sympathizer who had been arrested.

The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters.