Zvenyhorodka Raion
Zvenyhorodka Raion
Звенигородський район | |
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Raion location in Cherkasy Oblast | |
| Coordinates: 49°6′21.4″N 30°56′59.3″E / 49.105944°N 30.949806°E | |
| Country | Ukraine |
| Oblast | Cherkasy Oblast |
| Admin. center | Zvenyhorodka |
| Subdivisions | 17 hromadas |
| Population (2022) | |
• Total | 193,804 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
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Zvenyhorodka Raion is a raion (district) of Cherkasy Oblast, in central Ukraine. Its administrative centre is the city of Zvenyhorodka. Population: 193,804 (2022 estimate).
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Cherkasy Oblast was reduced to four, and the area of Zvenyhorodka Raion was significantly expanded. Four abolished raions, Katerynopil, Lysianka, Shpola, and Talne Raions, parts of two more abolished raions, Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi and Horodyshche Raions, as well as the city of Bahacheve, which was previously incorporated as a city of oblast significance and did not belong to any raion, were merged into Zvenyhorodka Raion. The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was 42,176 (2020 est.).