As governor-general of these territories, Grigory Potemkin originally envisioned the city as the Russian Empire's third capital city, after Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Known as Yekaterinoslav ( Ekaterinoslav) (Russian: Екатериносла́в, romanized: Yekaterinoslav Ukrainian: Катериносла́в, romanized: Katerynoslav ) until 1925, the city was formally inaugurated in 1787 by its then namesake, the Russian Empress Catherine the Great ( Russian: Екатери́на, romanized: Yekaterina), as the administrative centre of the newly acquired vast territories of imperial New Russia, including those ceded to Russia by the Ottoman Empire under the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca (1774).

Other findings suggest that the town Samar, now a neighborhood in Dnipro's Samarskyi District, existed in the 1520s. Īrcheological findings suggest that the first fortified town in the territory of present-day Dnipro probably dates to the mid- 16th century. It hosts the administration of Dnipro urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.

Dnipro is the administrative centre of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.

It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, 391 km (243 mi) southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper River, after which it is named. Dnipro ( Ukrainian: Дніпро ( listen)), previously called Dnipropetrovsk ( Ukrainian: Дніпропетро́вськ ) from 1926 until May 2016, is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants.

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