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There were 490 raions in 24 oblasts and the Crimea autonomous republic of Ukraine. The number of raions per region (oblast and autonomous republic) varies between 11 and over 20. The average area of a Ukrainian raion before the reform was 1,200 km 2 (463 sq mi). The average population was 52,000.
A raion (Ukrainian: район, romanized: raion; pl. райони, raiony), often translated as district, is the second-level administrative division in Ukraine. Raions were created in a 1922 administrative reform of the Soviet Union, to which Ukraine, as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, belonged.
hromadas (communities) [5] In an administrative reform in 2020, all populated places in the country (except for two cities with special status, Kyiv and Sevastopol) were resubordinated to raions. [6] The new figure of 136 raions includes 10 in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol; since September 2023, the Crimean raions are ...
Raions renamed by Parliament of Ukraine, with new names de facto not yet in force due to Russo-Ukrainian War (See also: Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine): Old name Region/AR Crimea New name References Kirovske Raion: AR Crimea Isliam-Terek Raion (RVRU) 1352-VIII Krasnohvardiiske Raion: AR Crimea Kurman Raion (RVRU) 1352-VIII ...
List of raions of Ukraine (1966–2020) Raions of Ukraine; Urban districts of Ukraine; U. Urban-type settlements in Ukraine This page was last edited on 11 April 2023 ...
List of raions of Ukraine (1966–2020) This page was last edited on 16 August 2023, at 12:21 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
In Ukraine, the term oblast denotes a primary administrative division.Under the Russian Empire and into the 1920s, Ukraine was divided between several governorates.The term oblast was introduced in 1932 by Soviet authorities when the Ukrainian SSR was divided into seven oblasts, replacing the previous subdivision system based on okruhas and encompassing 406 raions (districts). [2]
In Ukraine, there are a total of 136 raions which are the administrative divisions of oblasts (provinces) and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Major cities of regional significance as well as the two national cities with special status ( Kyiv and Sevastopol ) are also subdivided into raions (constituting a total of 118 nationwide).