Korop 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 ...

(district) of

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, northern

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. Its administrative centre was located at 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 ...

of Korop. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Chernihiv Oblast to five. The area of Korop Raion was merged into

Novhorod-Siverskyi Raion Novhorod-Siverskyi Raion () is a raion (district) of Chernihiv Oblast, northern Ukraine. Its administrative centre is located at Novhorod-Siverskyi. Population: On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of ra ...

. The last estimate of the raion population was At the time of disestablishment, the raion consisted of two

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s: * Korop settlement hromada with the administration in Korop; * Ponornytsia settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement of Ponornytsia. The raion contained the village of Shabalyniv.

References

Former raions of Chernihiv Oblast 1923 establishments in Ukraine Ukrainian raions abolished during the 2020 administrative reform {{Chernihiv-geo-stub