Rayons of Ukraine

Raions of Ukraine (Райони України) are second level of administrative division of Ukraine and are primary the most common division of regions of Ukraine. Equivalent type of regional subdivision are also raions in city (Raions in city of Ukraine), and cities of regional significance.

Raions are one of three types of administrative divisions of regions of Ukraine and second level in the administrative divisions of Ukraine.

Description
There are 490 raions in 24 oblasts and the Crimea autonomous republic of Ukraine. The number of raions per region (oblast and autonomous republic) varies between 11 and over 20. The average area of a Ukrainian raion is 1200 km2. The average population is 52,000.

The city municipalities of regional (oblast) significance (abbr. MOZ) have an independent of raion jurisdiction. The number of such cities (MOZ) varies from one region to another. In the list below they are listed separately as well. Each raion consist of urban (towns) or rural (villages) smaller municipalities that are administrated by their local councils (selsovet, silrada) and subordinated to raion's or city's administrations. They are the lowest level of administrative division.

Raion in city
Some cities of oblast subordination along with the two cities of national significance (Kiev and Sevastopol) are also divided in "city raions". "City raions" have their own local administration and are subordinated directly to a city. They may contain other cities, towns, and villages.

List of raions and cities of regional importance within each region
The following list represents the administrative division of oblasts in Ukraine that beside their raions usually contain at least one city that carries a special status such as the oblast seat. Apart from the administrative center each oblast may also have some other cities with a status of either oblast or raion significance (abbr. MOZ or MRZ).

Also note that the list is in the order of Cyrillic and in accordance to the above posted map with the towns of special status marked with letters of the Latin alphabet. The names of each raion correspond to its administrative center (raion seat). The population recorded in the table is listed in accordance to the latest census taken in the country, Ukrainian Census (2001). The names of some raions are still in the spirit of the colonial Soviet/Russian epochs and the administration of those raions is not too eager to abolish them.