Raions of Ukraine

Raions of Ukraine
Raions of Ukraine
	Raions after the administrative reform of 2020
Category	Second-level subdivision
Location	Ukraine
Created	1922;
Number	136 (as of 2020)
Populations	~150,000
Areas	1,200 km2 (460 sq mi)
Government	Raion council;
Subdivisions	1469 hromadas;

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.^[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 were previously outside the raions, into just 136 reformed raions.^[3] Most tasks of the raions (education, healthcare, sport facilities, culture, and social welfare) were taken over by new hromadas, the subdivisions of raions.^[4] The 136 new districts include ten in Crimea, which have been de facto outside Ukrainian control since the start of the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2014.

Terminology

Ukrainian	Ukrainian translit.	English
Район	Raion	District^[5]^[6]
Район у місті	Raion u misti	Urban district, district in a city

Districts of cities

Some cities of oblast significance, along with the two cities of national significance (Kyiv and Sevastopol^{[nb 2]}), are also divided in city raions, also called urban raions. City raions have their own local administration and are subordinated directly to a city. They may contain other cities, towns, and villages.

July 2020 reform

On 17 July 2020, the number of raions in Ukraine was reduced to 136 (incl. 10 in Crimea) from the previous 490.^[8]

List

Note: the Autonomous Republic of Crimea continues to use the same administrative divisions. Raions located in the occupied Donbas territories (see below in grey) are currently only de jure.^[9]^[10]

Number of raions by region

Excluding the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

Region	Number of raions
Vinnytsia Oblast	6
Volyn Oblast	4
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast	7
Donetsk Oblast	8
Zhytomyr Oblast	4
Zakarpattia Oblast	6
Zaporizhzhia Oblast	5
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast	6
Kyiv Oblast	7
Kirovohrad Oblast	4
Luhansk Oblast	8
Lviv Oblast	7
Mykolaiv Oblast	4
Odesa Oblast	7
Poltava Oblast	4
Rivne Oblast	4
Sumy Oblast	5
Ternopil Oblast	3
Kharkiv Oblast	7
Kherson Oblast	5
Khmelnytskyi Oblast	3
Cherkasy Oblast	4
Chernivtsi Oblast	3
Chernihiv Oblast	5
Ukraine	126

Autonomous Republic of Crimea

In 2014, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea was annexed by Russia as the Republic of Crimea.^[7]

The populations in the table are from the census of 2001.^{[needs update]}

#	Name	Center	Year	Area (km²)	Population	Density	Councils (municipalities)
#	Name	Center	Year	Area (km²)	Population	Density	City	Town	Village
1	Bakhchysarai Raion	Bakhchysarai	1923	1,589	92,617	58	1	2	15
2	Bilohirsk Raion	Bilohirsk	1930	3,106	122,259	39	1	2	35
3	Dzhankoi Raion	Dzhankoi	1921	2,693	125,333	47	1	2	26
4	Feodosia Raion	Feodosia	2020	3,177	231,666	73	3	8	47
5	Kerch Raion	Kerch	2020	3,027	226,660	75	2	2	24
6	Perekop Raion	Yany Kapu	1935	2,646	126,110	48	2	2	25
7	Kurman Raion	Kurman	1944	3,240	134,035	41	0	3	34
8	Simferopol Raion	Simferopol	1965	1,860	512,527	276	1	8	19
9	Yalta Raion	Yalta	2020	883	198,161	224	3	22	33
10	Yevpatoria Raion	Yevpatoria	2020	3,860	264,368	68	3	5	33

Changes

Nyzhnohirskyi Raion merged into Bilohirsk Raion.
Yevpatoria Raion (new) created from Saky Raion, Chornomorske Raion, and Yevpatoria.
Kerch Raion (new) created from Kerch and Lenine Raion.
Perekop Raion (new) created from Krasnoperekopsk, Armiansk, Krasnoperekopsk Raion, and Rozdolne Raion.
Dzhankoi Raion included the city of Dzhankoi.
Simferopol Raion included the city of Simferopol.
Feodosia (new) created from Sovietskyi Raion, Kirovske Raion, Feodosia, and Sudak.
Yalta Raion (new) created from Yalta and Alushta.

Other oblasts

Raions located in the occupied territories of Ukraine.

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Oblast	Name	Center	Center population	Area (km²)	Population (2021 estimate)^[11]	No. of Hromadas
Cherkasy Oblast	Cherkasy Raion	Cherkasy	274,8	6,882.1	591,313	26
	Uman Raion	Uman	83,1	4,527.2	251,408	12
	Zolotonosha Raion	Zolotonosha	28,3	4,249.1	138,036	11
	Zvenyhorodka Raion	Zvenyhorodka	17,1	5,279.9	197,509	17
Chernihiv Oblast	Chernihiv Raion	Chernihiv	288,3	10,249.0	451,430	20
	Nizhyn Raion	Nizhyn	71,1	7,226.6	220,640	17
	Pryluky Raion	Pryluky	56,3	5,214.2	152,632	11
	Novhorod-Siverskyi Raion	Novhorod-Siverskyi	13	4,630.5	63,670	4
	Koriukivka Raion	Koriukivka	12,9	4,578.7	88,329	5
Chernivtsi Oblast	Chernivtsi Raion	Chernivtsi	266,5	4,101.5	651,772	33
	Dnistrovskyi Raion	Kelmentsi	7,3	2,122.5	154,440	10
	Vyzhnytsia Raion	Vyzhnytsia	4	1,882.0	90,354	9
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast	Dnipro Raion	Dnipro	987,2	5,605.7	1,159,302	17
	Kryvyi Rih Raion	Kryvyi Rih	624,6	5,717.4	755,667	15
	Kamianske Raion	Kamianske	240,5	4,821.2	430,066	12
	Nikopol Raion	Nikopol	110,7	3,240.4	255,505	8
	Pavlohrad Raion	Pavlohrad	105,2	2,420.9	169,509	7
	Samar Raion	Samar	71,4	3,482.9	169,275	8
	Synelnykove Raion	Synelnykove	31,4	6,616.6	202,711	19
Donetsk Oblast	Donetsk Raion	Donetsk	924,2	2,895.1	1,490,301	6
	Mariupol Raion	Mariupol	440,4	2,623.8	510,425	5
	Horlivka Raion	Horlivka	244	2,468.4	664,949	9
	Kramatorsk Raion	Kramatorsk	153,9	5,186.3	553,559	12
	Bakhmut Raion	Bakhmut	74,1	1,747.6	224,528	7
	Pokrovsk Raion	Pokrovsk	63,0	4,020.0	393,487	14
	Volnovakha Raion	Volnovakha	21,9	4,449.1	141,797	8
	Kalmiuske Raion	Kalmiuske	11,5	3,132.6	121,234	5
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast	Ivano-Frankivsk Raion	Ivano-Frankivsk	236,6	3,913.1	558,130	20
	Kalush Raion	Kalush	66,5	3,555.0	282,692	13
	Kolomyia Raion	Kolomyia	61,3	2,484.5	275,512	13
	Nadvirna Raion	Nadvirna	22,1	1,872.0	129,939	8
	Kosiv Raion	Kosiv	8,6	853.7	84,437	5
	Verkhovyna Raion	Verkhovyna	5,8	1,271.7	30,399	3
Kharkiv Oblast	Kharkiv Raion	Kharkiv	1443,2	2,644.3	1,745,734	15
	Lozova Raion	Lozova	64,7	4,025.9	150,400	5
	Izium Raion	Izium	48,2	5,910.2	175,986	8
	Chuhuiv Raion	Chuhuiv	32,5	4,807.0	197,695	9
	Kupiansk Raion	Kupiansk	28,7	4,618.1	133,135	8
	Berestyn Raion	Berestyn	20,9	4,912.8	105,948	6
	Bohodukhiv Raion	Bohodukhiv	15,2	4,510.3	124,936	5
Kherson Oblast
	Kherson Raion	Kherson	289,1	3,649.9	456,548	10
	Kakhovka Raion	Nova Kakhovka	45,4	6,289.7	219,783	15
	Henichesk Raion	Henichesk	19,5	6,521.7	119,901	4
	Skadovsk Raion	Skadovsk	17,6	5,248.5	124,508	9
	Beryslav Raion	Beryslav	12,4	4,764.0	95,967	11
Khmelnytskyi Oblast	Khmelnytskyi Raion	Khmelnytskyi	273,9	10,755.8	679,374	27
	Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion	Kamianets-Podilskyi	99	4,521.2	284,010	15
	Shepetivka Raion	Shepetivka	41,2	5,346.7	280,403	18
Kirovohrad Oblast	Kropyvnytskyi Raion	Kropyvnytskyi	227,4	9,716.9	437,018	17
	Oleksandriia Raion	Oleksandriia	79,3	5,409.7	223,451	9
	Novoukrainka Raion	Novoukrainka	16,7	5,198.9	138,509	13
	Holovanivsk Raion	Holovanivsk	6	4,244.3	121,150	10
Kyiv Oblast	Bila Tserkva Raion	Bila Tserkva	208,9	6,513.1	436,115	13
	Brovary Raion	Brovary	108,7	2,883.1	242,180	8
	Boryspil Raion	Boryspil	62,3	3,874.9	203,273	11
	Fastiv Raion	Fastiv	45,9	2,886.7	183,794	9
	Bucha Raion	Bucha	35,6	1,544.3	362,382	12
	Obukhiv Raion	Obukhiv	33,6	3,526.3	228,829	9
	Vyshhorod Raion	Vyshhorod	29,9	6,913.4	131,957	7
Luhansk Oblast	Luhansk Raion	Luhansk	403,9	2,147.4	529,716	3
	Alchevsk Raion	Alchevsk	107,4	2,006.1	437,513	3
	Siverskodonetsk Raion	Siverskodonetsk	102,4	2,685.7	369,421	6
	Dovzhansk Raion	Dovzhansk	64,2	2,139.0	206,360	2
	Rovenky Raion	Rovenky	46,7	2,087.6	295,057	3
	Svatove Raion	Svatove	17,1	5,329.1	78,278	7
	Starobilsk Raion	Starobilsk	16,9	6,930.6	126,010	8
	Shchastia Raion	Novoaidar	8,6	3,380.4	78,967	5
Lviv Oblast	Lviv Raion	Lviv	724,3	4,968.5	1,146,538	23
	Drohobych Raion	Drohobych	76	1,496.9	235,405	5
	Sheptytskyi Raion	Sheptytskyi	67,2	2,971.6	228,945	7
	Stryi Raion	Stryi	59,3	3,840.5	322,853	14
	Sambir Raion	Sambir	34,8	3,250.4	224,126	11
	Zolochiv Raion	Zolochiv	24,3	2,913.4	160,664	7
	Yavoriv Raion	Yavoriv	15	2,378.4	179,219	6
Mykolaiv Oblast	Mykolaiv Raion	Mykolaiv	483,2	7,433.7	645,562	19
	Pervomaisk Raion	Pervomaisk	66,1	3,797.2	147,757	8
	Voznesensk Raion	Voznesensk	34,4	6,081.0	178,336	13
	Bashtanka Raion	Bashtanka	12,7	6,714.9	136,739	12
Odesa Oblast	Odesa Raion	Odesa	1017,7	3,922.8	1,382,541	22
	Izmail Raion	Izmail	71,8	3,434.4	207,333	6
	Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion	Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi	49	5,220.6	198,572	16
	Podilsk Raion	Podilsk	40,4	7,063.6	224,163	12
	Rozdilna Raion	Rozdilna	17,8	3,564.4	102,584	9
	Bolhrad Raion	Bolhrad	15	4,559.4	146,424	10
	Berezivka Raion	Berezivka	9,6	5,551.6	106,490	16
Poltava Oblast	Poltava Raion	Poltava	286,7	10,849.6	589,922	24
	Kremenchuk Raion	Kremenchuk	220,1	6,105.8	392,341	12
	Lubny Raion	Lubny	46,2	5,476.9	187,538	7
	Myrhorod Raion	Myrhorod	39,1	6,287.4	201,728	17
Rivne Oblast	Rivne Raion	Rivne	245,6	7,218.0	629,531	26
	Varash Raion	Varash	42,4	3,327.2	138,599	8
	Dubno Raion	Dubno	38	3,294.6	167,728	19
	Sarny Raion	Sarny	29,2	6,219.0	212,598	11
Sumy Oblast	Sumy Raion	Sumy	263,5	6,499.4	440,618	16
	Konotop Raion	Konotop	86,3	5,190.6	198,238	8
	Shostka Raion	Shostka	75	5,072.3	182,792	10
	Okhtyrka Raion	Okhtyrka	48,5	3,196.6	122,146	9
	Romny Raion	Romny	40,5	3,882.7	109,658	8
Ternopil Oblast	Ternopil Raion	Ternopil	221,8	6,162.3	562,142	25
	Chortkiv Raion	Chortkiv	29	5,022.0	326,745	22
	Kremenets Raion	Kremenets	21,2	2,635.7	141,675	8
Vinnytsia Oblast	Vinnytsia Raion	Vinnytsia	370,7	6,888.9	652,126	16
	Zhmerynka Raion	Zhmerynka	34,3	3,150.6	161,544	8
	Mohyliv-Podilskyi Raion	Mohyliv-Podilskyi	31,2	3,220.5	142,456	7
	Khmilnyk Raion	Khmilnyk	27,4	3,701.1	183,913	9
	Haisyn Raion	Haisyn	25,8	5,674.8	236,803	14
	Tulchyn Raion	Tulchyn	14,9	3,858.4	152,281	9
Volyn Oblast	Lutsk Raion	Lutsk	221,1	5,247.8	456,928	15
	Kovel Raion	Kovel	68,2	7,647.9	268,082	23
	Volodymyr Raion	Volodymyr	38,9	2,558.2	171,264	11
	Kamin-Kashyrskyi Raion	Kamin-Kashyrskyi	12,5	4,693.4	131,123	5
Zakarpattia Oblast	Uzhhorod Raion	Uzhhorod	114,9	2,359.5	255,532	14
	Mukachevo Raion	Mukachevo	85,9	2,054.0	252,616	13
	Khust Raion	Khust	28,5	3,174.4	267,333	13
	Berehove Raion	Berehove	23,7	1,458.7	207,719	10
	Rakhiv Raion	Rakhiv	15,5	1,845.2	82,397	4
	Tiachiv Raion	Tiachiv	9	1,869.5	184,532	10
Zaporizhzhia Oblast
	Zaporizhzhia Raion	Zaporizhzhia	731,9	4,674.6	855,297	17^[12]
	Melitopol Raion	Melitopol	153,1	7,081.0	280,816	16^[12]
	Berdiansk Raion	Berdiansk	109,2	4,461.6	179,118	8^[12]
	Polohy Raion	Polohy	19,3	6,762.5	167,060	15^[12]
	Vasylivka Raion	Vasylivka	13,7	4,287.3	184,224	11^[12]
Zhytomyr Oblast	Zhytomyr Raion	Zhytomyr	264,5	10,505.8	613,311	31
	Berdychiv Raion	Berdychiv	75,4	3,014.1	159,164	10
	Korosten Raion	Korosten	63,3	11,066.8	255,480	13
	Zviahel Raion	Zviahel	56,3	5,242.6	167,540	12

Former raions

Dzhuryn Raion 1923-1959
Liubar Raion 1923-2020
Bazalia Raion 1923-1931, 1935-1959
Berezdiv Raion 1923-1924, 1935-1959
Dashiv Raion 1923-1931, 1935-1959
Turbiv Raion
Vovkovyntsi Raion 1935-37

Notes

^ Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union from 1922 until declaring its independence in 1991.^[2]
^ Sevastopol, a city with special status under Ukrainian law, was annexed by Russia in 2014.^[7]

References

^ Liber, George O. (2016). Total Wars and the Making of Modern Ukraine, 1914-1954. University of Toronto Press. p. ix/xx. ISBN 9781442627086.
^ Magocsi, Paul Robert (2010). A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples. University of Toronto Press, pp. 563/564 & 722/723. ISBN 1442610212
^ "Україна з новим адмінтерустроєм: парламент створив 136 нових районів та ліквідував 490 старих". Decentralization Reform (in Ukrainian). 17 July 2020.
"The council reduced the number of districts in Ukraine: 136 instead of 490". Ukrainska Pravda (in Ukrainian). 17 July 2020.
^ Where did 354 districts disappear to? Anatomy of loud reform, Glavcom (7 August 2020) (in Ukrainian)
^ "Regions and cities". vininvest.gov.ua. Archived from the original on 2016-12-26.
^ "Regions of Ukraine". Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 2014-10-08. Retrieved 2014-10-16.
^ ^a ^b Gutterman, Steve (18 March 2014). "Putin signs Crimea treaty, will not seize other Ukraine regions". Reuters.com. Retrieved 2014-03-26.
^ Автор. "Те, чого ніколи не було в Україні: Уряд затвердив адмінтерустрій базового рівня, що забезпечить повсюдність місцевого самоврядування". decentralization.gov.ua. Retrieved 2023-06-18.
^ "New rayons: maps and structure". decentralization.gov.ua. Retrieved 2023-06-17.
^ "Нові райони: карти + склад". decentralization.gov.ua. Retrieved 2023-06-17.
^ Official estimate as at 1.1.2021 by State Statistics Committee of Ukraine (on web).
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Атлас Адміністративно-територіального устрою Запорізької області

External links

2001 Ukrainian census, Population Structure (in Ukrainian)
Regions of Ukraine and its composition (in Ukrainian)

[3] Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union from 1922 until declaring its independence in 1991.^[2]

[9] Sevastopol, a city with special status under Ukrainian law, was annexed by Russia in 2014.^[7]

[20Ukraine%201932rainons-1] Liber, George O. (2016). Total Wars and the Making of Modern Ukraine, 1914-1954. University of Toronto Press. p. ix/xx. ISBN 9781442627086.

[2] Magocsi, Paul Robert (2010). A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples. University of Toronto Press, pp. 563/564 & 722/723. ISBN 1442610212

[4] "Україна з новим адмінтерустроєм: парламент створив 136 нових районів та ліквідував 490 старих". Decentralization Reform (in Ukrainian). 17 July 2020.
"The council reduced the number of districts in Ukraine: 136 instead of 490". Ukrainska Pravda (in Ukrainian). 17 July 2020.

[reformi697326-5] Where did 354 districts disappear to? Anatomy of loud reform, Glavcom (7 August 2020) (in Ukrainian)

[6] "Regions and cities". vininvest.gov.ua. Archived from the original on 2016-12-26.

[7] "Regions of Ukraine". Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 2014-10-08. Retrieved 2014-10-16.

[ReutersRoU-8] Gutterman, Steve (18 March 2014). "Putin signs Crimea treaty, will not seize other Ukraine regions". Reuters.com. Retrieved 2014-03-26.

[10] Автор. "Те, чого ніколи не було в Україні: Уряд затвердив адмінтерустрій базового рівня, що забезпечить повсюдність місцевого самоврядування". decentralization.gov.ua. Retrieved 2023-06-18.

[11] "New rayons: maps and structure". decentralization.gov.ua. Retrieved 2023-06-17.

[12] "Нові райони: карти + склад". decentralization.gov.ua. Retrieved 2023-06-17.

[13] Official estimate as at 1.1.2021 by State Statistics Committee of Ukraine (on web).

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