Raions Of Ukraine

Raions were created in a 1922 administrative reform of the Soviet Union, to which Ukraine, as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, belonged.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Following the 2014 Crimean crisis, 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.^{[needs update]}

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

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• 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

• Administrative divisions of Ukraine
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