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Raions of Ukraine
Second-level administrative divisions of Ukraine
Second-level administrative divisions of Ukraine
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Raions of Ukraine |
| map | Raions of Ukraine (after Oct. 2020) EN.svg |
| caption | Raions after the administrative reform of 2020 |
| category | Second-level subdivision |
| territory | Ukraine |
| start_date | 1922 |
| current_number | 136 |
| number_date | 2020 |
| government | Raion council |
| subdivision | 1469 hromadas |
A raion (; ), 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.
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. Most tasks of the raions (education, healthcare, sport facilities, culture, and social welfare) were taken over by new hromadas, the subdivisions of raions. 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 |
| 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), 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.
List
Note: the Russian 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.
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.
The populations in the table are from the census of 2001.
| # | rowspan=2 | Name | rowspan=2 | Center | rowspan=2 | Year | rowspan=2 | Area | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (km2) | rowspan=2 | Population | rowspan=2 | Density | colspan=3 | Councils (municipalities) | City | width=10% | Town | width=10% | Village | |||||
| 1 | Bakhchysarai Raion | |||||||||||||||
| 2 | Bilohirsk Raion | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | Dzhankoi Raion | |||||||||||||||
| 4 | Feodosia Raion | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | Kerch Raion | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | Perekop Raion | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | Kurman Raion | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | Simferopol Raion | |||||||||||||||
| 9 | Yalta Raion | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | Yevpatoria Raion |
;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
| Oblast | Name | Center | Center population | Area | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (km2) | Population | |||||
| (2021 estimate) | 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 | |
| Melitopol Raion | Melitopol | 153,1 | 7,081.0 | 280,816 | 16 | |
| Berdiansk Raion | Berdiansk | 109,2 | 4,461.6 | 179,118 | 8 | |
| Polohy Raion | Polohy | 19,3 | 6,762.5 | 167,060 | 15 | |
| Vasylivka Raion | Vasylivka | 13,7 | 4,287.3 | 184,224 | 11 | |
| 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 names
As a result of decommunization and derussification efforts, many toponyms have been renamed, including some raions.
- Dnipropetrovsk Raion → Dnipro Raion
- Dniprodzerzhynsk Raion → Kamianske Raion
- Novomoskovsk Raion → Samar Raion
- Artemivsk Raion → Bakhmut Raion
- Krasnoarmiisk Raion → Pokrovsk Raion
- Komsomolske Raion → Kalmiuske Raion
- Krasnohrad Raion → Berestyn Raion
- Severodonetsk Raion → Siverskodonetsk Raion
- Sverdlovsk Raion → Dovzhansk Raion
- Chervonohrad Raion → Sheptytskyi Raion
- Kotovsk Raion → Podilsk Raion
- Kuznetsovsk Raion → Varash Raion
- Volodymyr-Volynskyi Raion → Volodymyr Raion
- Novohrad-Volynskyi Raion → Zviahel Raion
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
References
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