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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 official names of populated places and raions in the country are determined through legislation passed by the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, typically at the request of local authorities; urban districts are named by each city's municipal council or other local government.
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 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 ...
first-level, 5 other entities at that level exist Districts of South Ossetia: 4: first-level, 1 other entity at that level exists Districts of Russia: 1731 [nb 1] second-level below federal subjects Districts of Transnistria: 5: first-level Districts of Ukraine: 136 and 118 city raions: second-level, numbers as of 2020, including Sevastopol and ...
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 ...