Nizhyn Raion
Nizhyn Raion
Ніжинський район | |
|---|---|
Raion location in Chernihiv Oblast | |
| Coordinates: 51°7′19″N 31°59′43″E / 51.12194°N 31.99528°E | |
| Country | Ukraine |
| Oblast | Chernihiv |
| Admin. center | Nizhyn |
| Subdivisions | 17 hromadas |
| Area | |
• Total | 1,514 km2 (585 sq mi) |
| Population (2022) | |
• Total | 215,908 |
| • Density | 140/km2 (370/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Website | http://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).
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. The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was 25,716 (2020 est.).