Khotyn Raion

Khotyn Raion
Хотинський район
Flag of Khotyn Raion
Coat of arms of Khotyn Raion
Coordinates: 48°26′31″N 26°19′30″E / 48.44194°N 26.32500°E / 48.44194; 26.32500
Country Ukraine
Region Chernivtsi Oblast
Established1940
Disestablished18 July 2020
Admin. centerKhotyn
Subdivisions
List
  •    — city councils
  •    — settlement councils
  •  — rural councils

  • Number of localities:
       — cities
  •    — urban-type settlements
  • 38 — villages
  •    — rural settlements
Area
 • Total716 km2 (276 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)
 • Total60,515
 • Density85/km2 (220/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+02:00 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Postal index
600xx
Area code380 3731

Khotyn Raion (Ukrainian: Хотинський район) was an administrative raion (district) in the southern part of Chernivtsi Oblast in western Ukraine, on the Romanian border. It was part of the historical region of Bessarabia. The administrative center was the city of Khotyn. The region had an area of 716 square kilometres (276 sq mi). The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Chernivtsi Oblast to three. The area of Khotyn Raion was merged into Dnistrovskyi Raion.[1][2] According to the 2001 census, the majority of the Khotyn district's population spoke Ukrainian (91.57%), with Romanian (6.96%) and Russian (1.27%) speakers in the minority.[3] The last estimate of the raion population was 60,515 (2020 est.)[4]

At the time of disestablishment, the raion consisted of eight hromadas:[5]

Three villages, Kolinkivtsi, Hrozyntsi, and Bochkivtsi, belonged to Toporyvtsi rural hromada, mainly based in Novoselytsia Raion. After the reform, they were transferred to Chernivtsi Raion.[6]

  1. ^ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  2. ^ "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.
  3. ^ "Рідні мови в об'єднаних територіальних громадах України".
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ "Хотинська районна рада (состав до 2020 г.)" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
  6. ^ "Топоривская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.