Lokhvytsia (Ukrainian: Лохвиця, pronounced [ˈɫɔxwɪt͡sʲɐ]) is a city in Myrhorod Raion, Poltava Oblast, central Ukraine.

[2] In addition to the Ukrainian Лохвиця (Lokhvytsia), in other languages the name of the city is Russian: Ло́хвица, romanized: Lokhvitsa and Yiddish: לאחװיצא.

The name of the river Lokhvytsia, as well as the town, comes from the Old Slavonic word lokhve which means "salmon".

At the time of Kievan Rus' the territory where the town is located was part of Principality of Pereyaslavl.

The natural gas consists of almost 70% of propane-butane fractions, which make it a valuable raw material for the chemical industry, such as the production of synthetic fibres and plastics.