Khmelnytskyi Raion

Khmelnytskyi Raion
Хмельницький район
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Coordinates: 49°31′06″N 26°58′27″E / 49.51833°N 26.97417°E / 49.51833; 26.97417
Country Ukraine
OblastKhmelnytskyi Oblast
EstablishedJanuary 4, 1965
Admin. centerKhmelnytskyi
Subdivisions27 hromadas
Government
 • GovernorKateryna Andriychuk[1] (PR)
Area
 • Total10,755 km2 (4,153 sq mi)
Population
 (2022)[2]
 • Total672,305
 • Density63/km2 (160/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+02:00 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Postal index
31301—31364
Area code+380 382
Websitehttp://khmeladmin.org.ua

Khmelnytskyi Raion (Ukrainian: Хмельницький район, romanizedKhmel'nyts'kyi raion) is one of the three administrative raions (districts) of Khmelnytskyi Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Khmelnytskyi. Population: 672,305 (2022 estimate).[2]

On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Khmelnytskyi Oblast was reduced to three, and the area of Khmelnytskyi Raion was significantly expanded. Ten abolished raions, Derazhnia, Horodok, Krasyliv, Letychiv, Stara Syniava, Starokostiantyniv, Teofipol, Vinkivtsi, Volochysk, and Yarmolyntsi Raions, as well as the cities of Khmelnytskyi and Starokostiantyniv, which were previously incorporated as a cities of oblast significance and did not belong to the corresponding raions, were merged into Khmelnytskyi Raion.[3][4] Its population was 53,686 in the 2001 Ukrainian Census.[1] The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was 52,955 (2020 est.).[5]

  1. ^ a b "Krasyliv Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast". Regions of Ukraine and their Structure (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 7 January 2013.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ a b Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.
  3. ^ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  4. ^ "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.
  5. ^ Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2020 року / Population of Ukraine Number of Existing as of January 1, 2020 (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 September 2023.