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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]
Pohoryna zemlia. After the creation of the Ukrainian People's Republic in 1917, the Russian governorates inhabited by Ukrainians became subdivisions of Ukraine. In 1918, there was a not fully realized territorial administrative reform in the Ukrainian People's Republic, where the country was divided into zemlias, volosts, and hromadas.
Not all regions have each type of those subdivisions. The most inconsistent type of division is raion within city. Each of those subdivisions are governed by their own district state administration chairman appointed by the President of Ukraine on the recommendation of a governor (chairman of the Regional State Administration). The legislative ...
The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics is a geocode standard for referencing the subdivisions of Ukraine for statistical purposes. The NUTS standard is instrumental in delivering the European Union's Structural Funds. The NUTS code for Ukraine is UA and a hierarchy of three levels is established by Eurostat. Below these is a ...
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.
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]
Lists of subdivisions of Ukraine (2 C, 9 P) A. Administrative divisions of regions of Ukraine (5 C, 28 P) Autonomous republics of Ukraine (1 C, 2 P) C.