Skadovsk Raion

Skadovskyi Raion
Скадовський район
Flag of Skadovskyi Raion
Coat of arms of Skadovskyi Raion
Coordinates: 46°10′30.8706″N 32°53′11.4174″E / 46.175241833°N 32.886504833°E / 46.175241833; 32.886504833
Country Ukraine
Oblast Kherson Oblast
Established1923
Admin. centerSkadovsk
Subdivisions9 hromadas
Government
 • GovernorYegor Ustynov
Area
 • Total
5,255 km2 (2,029 sq mi)
Population
 (2022)[2]
 • Total
122,745
 • Density23/km2 (60/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+02:00 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Postal index
75700—75752
Area code+380 5537
Websitehttp://www.skadovsk.com/

Skadovsk Raion (Ukrainian: Скадовський район) is one of the five administrative raions (districts) of Kherson Oblast in southern Ukraine. Its administrative center is located in the city of Skadovsk. Population: 122,745 (2022 estimate).[2]

On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Kherson Oblast was reduced to five, and the area of Skadovsk Raion was significantly expanded. Two abolished raions, Hola Prystan and Kalanchak Raions, as well as Hola Prystan Municipality and the city of Skadovsk, which was previously incorporated as a cities of oblast significance and did not belong to the raion, was merged into Skadovsk Raion.[3][4] The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was 46,043 (2020 est.).[5]

  1. ^ https://decentralization.gov.ua/areas/0552/rayons
  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.