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The Ministry of Temporarily Occupied Territories and Internally displaced persons is a government ministry in Ukraine that was officially established on 20 April 2016 [2] to manage occupied parts of Donetsk, Luhansk and Crimea regions affected by Russian military intervention of 2014.
Raions (Ukrainian: район; pl. райони) are smaller territorial units of subdivision in Ukraine. There are 136 raions. [12] Following the December 2019 draft constitutional changes submitted to the Verkhovna Rada by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, 136 new raions have replaced the former 490 raions of Ukraine. [13]
In Ukraine, the term oblast denotes a primary administrative division.Under the Russian Empire and into the 1920s, Ukraine was divided between several governorates.The term oblast was introduced in 1932 by Soviet authorities when the Ukrainian SSR was divided into seven oblasts, replacing the previous subdivision system based on okruhas and encompassing 406 raions (districts). [2]
This is a list of administrative divisions of Ukraine sorted by their gross regional domestic product (GRPD). GRPD is the regional counterpart of the national gross regional domestic product (GDP), the most comprehensive measure of national economic activity.
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]
This is a list of all islands located in Ukraine with an area greater than 3,000 square kilometres (1,158 sq mi) and some of the more important minor islands. Note that during the 2014 Crimean crisis and Russian military intervention, Ukraine lost control over Crimea, which was unilaterally annexed by Russia in March 2014 (most countries continue to consider Crimea to be a part of Ukraine).
Sometimes the term "South-eastern Ukraine" is used to define both regions of the Southern and Eastern Ukraine. Due to the shape of the country, in narrow definition, term "Northern Ukraine" is often used to denote either the bulge of Chernihiv / Sumy oblasts or, in broader terms, the whole of Polesia .
Old name did not conform with norms of the Ukrainian language [52] Volodymyr-Volynskyi Володимир-Волинський: Volodymyr Володимир: City Volodymyr-Volynskyi → Volodymyr Raion: 15 December 2021 [75] Old name was given to avoid confusion with the city of Vladimir in the Russian language; original name was returned [76 ...