Dunaivtsi Raion () was a

raion A raion (also spelt rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states. The term is used for both a type of subnational entity and a division of a city. The word is from the French (meaning 'honeycomb, department'), and is c ...

Khmelnytskyi Oblast Khmelnytskyi Oblast (), also known as Khmelnychchyna (), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) in western Ukraine covering portions of the historical regions of western Podolia and southern Volhynia. The Capital (political) ...

in Ukraine. Its

administrative center An administrative centre is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune, is located. In countries with French as the administrative language, such as Belgiu ...

was

Dunaivtsi Dunaivtsi (, ; ; ) is a List of cities in Ukraine, city in Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine. It is located on the river Ternavka, 22 km away from the railway station Dunaivtsi and 68 km from the Khmelnytskyi, Ukr ...

. It was established in 1923. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Khmelnytskyi Oblast to three. The area of Dunaivtsi Raion was merged into

Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion () is one of the three administrative Raions of Ukraine, raions (district) of Khmelnytskyi Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is located in the city of Kamianets-Podilskyi. Population: On 18 July 2020, ...

. The last estimate of the raion population was

Geography

Dunaivtsi Raion was a part of

Podolia Podolia or Podillia is a historic region in Eastern Europe located in the west-central and southwestern parts of Ukraine and northeastern Moldova (i.e. northern Transnistria). Podolia is bordered by the Dniester River and Boh River. It features ...

. It was one out 20 Raions of

. It was a large raion and ranked as the 5th among the largest with respect to the total area (1 182 km² corresponding to 5.7% of the total area of

Subdivisions

At the time of disestablishment, the raion consisted of four

hromada In Ukraine, a hromada () is the main type of municipality and the third level Administrative divisions of Ukraine, local self-government in Ukraine. The current hromadas were established by the Cabinet of ministers of Ukraine, Government of Uk ...

s: *

Dunaivtsi urban hromada Dunaivtsi (, ; ; ) is a city in Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine. It is located on the river Ternavka, 22 km away from the railway station Dunaivtsi and 68 km from the Khmelnytskyi. Reinforcement plant, repair an ...

with the administration in the city of

; * Makiv rural hromada with the administration in the

selo ''Selo'' is a Slavic term for a type of village. It may also refer to: Slovenia * Selo, Ajdovščina, a settlement in the Municipality of Ajdovščina, southwestern Slovenia * Selo, Krško, a settlement in the Municipality of Krško, southeaste ...

of Makiv; * Novodunaivtsi settlement hromada with the administration in the

urban-type settlement Urban-type settlement, abbreviated: ; , abbreviated: ; ; ; ; . is an official designation for lesser urbanized settlements, used in several Central and Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern European countries. The term was primarily used in the So ...

; * Smotrych settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement of Smotrych. 1 city (Dunaivtsi), 2 urban-type settlements (

and Smotrych) and 83 villages were located in Dunaivtsi Raion.

References

External links

www.rda.dn.km.ua
{{Authority control Former raions of Khmelnytskyi Oblast States and territories established in 1923 1923 establishments in Ukraine Ukrainian raions abolished during the 2020 administrative reform