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Raions of Ukraine
Raions after the administrative reform of 2020
Category	Second-level subdivision
Location	Ukraine
Created	1922
Number	136 (as of 2020)
Government	Raion council
Subdivisions	1469 hromadas

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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.

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

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.

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

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

See also

• Administrative divisions of Ukraine
• Povit

Notes

1. 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.

References

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
3. "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.
4. Where did 354 districts disappear to? Anatomy of loud reform, Glavcom (7 August 2020) (in Ukrainian)
5. "Regions and cities". vininvest.gov.ua. Archived from the original on 2016-12-26.
6. "Regions of Ukraine". Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 2014-10-08. Retrieved 2014-10-16.
7. ^ Gutterman, Steve (18 March 2014). "Putin signs Crimea treaty, will not seize other Ukraine regions". Reuters.com. Retrieved 2014-03-26.
8. 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.
9. "New rayons: maps and structure". decentralization.gov.ua. Retrieved 2023-06-17.
10. "Нові райони: карти + склад". decentralization.gov.ua. Retrieved 2023-06-17.
11. Official estimate as at 1.1.2021 by State Statistics Committee of Ukraine (on web).
12. ^ Атлас Адміністративно-територіального устрою Запорізької області

External links

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

• Raions of Ukraine
• Administrative divisions of Ukraine
• Administrative divisions in Europe
• Lists of subdivisions of Ukraine