Nizhyn Raion

Nizhyn Raion
Ніжинський район
Flag of Nizhyn Raion
Coat of arms of Nizhyn Raion
Raion location in Chernihiv Oblast
Raion location in Chernihiv Oblast
Coordinates: 51°7′19″N 31°59′43″E / 51.12194°N 31.99528°E / 51.12194; 31.99528
Country Ukraine
Oblast Chernihiv
Admin. centerNizhyn
Subdivisions17 hromadas
Area
 • Total1,514 km2 (585 sq mi)
Population
 (2022)[1]
 • Total215,908
 • Density140/km2 (370/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Websitehttp://neadm.cg.gov.ua/

Nizhyn Raion (Ukrainian: Ніжинський район) is a raion (district) of Chernihiv Oblast, northern Ukraine. Its administrative centre is located at Nizhyn. Population: 215,908 (2022 estimate).[1]

On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Chernihiv Oblast was reduced to five, and the area of Nizhyn Raion was significantly expanded. Four abolished raions, Bakhmach, Bobrovytsia, Borzna, and Nosivka Raions, as well as the city of Nizhyn, which was previously incorporated as a city of oblast significance and did not belong to the raion, were merged into Nizhyn Raion.[2][3] The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was 25,716 (2020 est.).[4]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  3. ^ "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій 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.