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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.
Raions were created in a 1922 administrative reform of the Soviet Union, to which Ukraine, as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, belonged. [ 1 ] [ nb 1 ] On 17 July 2020, the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament) approved an administrative reform to merge most of the 490 raions, along with the " cities of regional significance ", which ...
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 ...
The administrative division of regions of Ukraine is not homogeneous, but it is standardized. The regions are subdivided into raions (see also urban raions), that are further divided into hromadas. Not all regions have each type of those subdivisions. The most inconsistent type of division is raion within city.
Raions of Ukraine by oblast (24 C) C. ... List of raions of Ukraine (1966–2020) This page was last edited on 16 August 2023, at 12:21 (UTC). ...
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 ...
An official list of placenames not conforming to the Ukrainian language was published on 30 June 2023 by the National Commission on State Language Standards , [10] followed on 3 August by a separate list from the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory of placenames associated with Russian imperialism.
1-b) Use Google Earth to locate your village, town or city; the geographical coordinates will be displayed at the bottom of the screen for wherever on the satellite imagery the mouse's cursor is held. 1-c) Use the Falling Grain web site for locating places in Ukraine. Make a note of the coordinates, they will be used later.