Tatarbunary Raion

Tatarbunarskyi Raion
Татарбунарський район
Raion
Flag of Tatarbunarskyi Raion
Flag
Coat of arms of Tatarbunarskyi Raion
Coat of arms
Coordinates: 45°44′44″N 29°46′2″E / 45.74556°N 29.76722°E / 45.74556; 29.76722
Country Ukraine
RegionOdesa Oblast
Disestablished18 July 2020
Admin. centerTatarbunary
Subdivisions
List
  •   1 — city councils
  •   0 — settlement councils
  • 18 — rural councils

  • Number of localities:
      1 — cities
  •   0 — urban-type settlements
  • 35 — villages
  •   0 — rural settlements
Area
 • Total
1,748 km2 (675 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)
 • Total
38,065
 • Density22/km2 (56/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+02:00 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Postal index
68104
Area code+380 04844

Tatarbunary Raion (Ukrainian: Татарбунарський район) was a raion (district) in Odesa Oblast of Ukraine. The raion was located in the south-west part of the oblast, along the Black Sea coast, and it was part of the historical region of Bessarabia. Its administrative center was the city of Tatarbunary. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Odesa Oblast to seven. The area of Tatarbunary Raion was merged into Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion.[1][2] The last estimate of the raion population was 38,065 (2020 est.).[3] According to the 2001 census, the majority of Tatarbunary raion's population spoke Ukrainian (72.4%), with a minority of Bulgarian (10.7%), Romanian (8.49%) and Russian (7.68%) speakers.[4][5] Tatarbunary raion, within its boundaries at that time, had in 2001 41,710 inhabitants, of which 71.27% were ethnic Ukrainians, 6.42% ethnic Russians, 9.39% Moldovans, 11.48% ethnic Bulgarians, 0.24% ethnic Gagauz and 0.03% Romanians.[6]

Geographically, there were 1 city (Tatarbunary), and 35 villages in the raion.

  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. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "Мовний склад районів".
  5. ^ "Рідні мови в об'єднаних територіальних громадах України".
  6. ^ "Область / Район" [Region / District] (in Russian).