The Kherson uezd[a] was a county (uezd) of the Kherson Governorate of the Russian Empire, and then of the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Ukrainian SSR until the administrative reform of 1923.

The district was eponymously named for its administrative center, Kherson.

The subcounties (volosts) of the Kherson uezd in 1912 were as follows:[1] At the time of the Russian Empire Census on 28 January [O.S.

15 January] 1897, the Kherson uezd had a population of 587,804, including 302,002 men and 285,502 women.

The majority of the population indicated Little Russian[b] to be their mother tongue, with significant Russian, Jewish, and German speaking minorities.