Nikopol Raion () is 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

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) in simultaneously southern, eastern and central Ukraine, the most important industrial region of the country. It was created on February 27, 1932. Dnipropetro ...

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. Its administrative center is the city of Nikopol. Population: On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast was reduced to seven, and the area of Nikopol Raion was significantly expanded. One abolished raion,

Tomakivka Raion Tomakivka Raion () was a raion (district) of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, southeastern-central Ukraine. Its administrative centre was located at the urban-type settlement of Tomakivka. The raion covered an area of 1200 square kilometres. The raion was ...

Marhanets Marhanets ( , ) is a List of cities in Ukraine, city in Nikopol Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine. The city used to be located on the right bank of the Kakhovka Reservoir before the Reservoir’s destruction during the Russian invasion of Ukr ...

and Pokrov Municipalities, as well as the city of Nikopol, which was previously incorporated as a city of oblast significance and did not belong to the raion, were merged into Nikopol Raion. The area of the raion before expansion was (second largest among all the raions of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast). The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was The southern border of the raion is by the

Kakhovka Reservoir The Kakhovka Reservoir () was a water reservoir on the Dnieper River in Ukraine. It was created in 1956 by construction of the Kakhovka Dam at Nova Kakhovka. It was one of several reservoirs in the Dnieper reservoir cascade. The dam was breac ...

by the

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Subdivisions

Current

After the reform in July 2020, the raion consisted of eight

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s: *

Chervonohryhorivka settlement hromada Chervonohryhorivka (; ) is a rural settlement in Nikopol Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine. The settlement is located east of Nikopol on what used to be the right bank of the Kakhovka Reservoir. It hosts the administration of Chervonohryhori ...

with the administration in the

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Chervonohryhorivka Chervonohryhorivka (; ) is a rural settlement in Nikopol Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine. The settlement is located east of Nikopol on what used to be the right bank of the Kakhovka Reservoir. It hosts the administration of Chervonohryhoriv ...

, retained from Nikopol Raion; *

Marhanets urban hromada Marhanets ( , ) is a city in Nikopol Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine. The city used to be located on the right bank of the Kakhovka Reservoir before the Reservoir’s destruction during the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the Dnieper River w ...

with the administration in the city of

, transferred from Marhanets Municipality; * Myrove rural hromada with the administration in the settlement of Myrove, transferred from

; * Nikopol urban hromada with the administration in the city of Nikopol, transferred from the city of oblast significance of Nikopol; * Pershotravneve rural hromada with the administration in the selo of , retained from Nikopol Raion; *

Pokrov urban hromada Pokrov may refer to: *Pokrov, Ukraine, a town in Ukraine *Pokrov (Russian) or Pokrova (Ukrainian), name for the Intercession of the Theotokos, one of the Orthodox feasts *Pokrov Urban Settlement, a municipal formation into which the town of Pokrov ...

with the administration in the city of Pokrov, transferred from

Pokrov Municipality Pokrov (, ), formerly Ordzhonikidze () until 2016, is a small city and mining town in Nikopol Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, central Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Pokrov urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Its population i ...

; * Pokrovske rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Pokrovske, retained from Nikopol Raion; *

Tomakivka settlement hromada Tomakivka (, ) is a rural settlement in Nikopol Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, southeastern Ukraine. It is located on confluence of Tomakivka and Kyslichuvata rivers. Tomakivka hosts the administration of Tomakivka settlement hromada, one of the h ...

with the administration in the rural settlement of

Tomakivka Tomakivka (, ) is a rural settlement in Nikopol Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, southeastern Ukraine. It is located on confluence of Tomakivka and Kyslichuvata rivers. Tomakivka hosts the administration of Tomakivka settlement hromada, one of the hr ...

, transferred from

Before 2020

Before the 2020 reform, the raion consisted of three

s: * Chervonohryhorivka settlement hromada with the administration in Chervonohryhorivka; * Pershotravneve rural hromada with the administration in Pershotravneve; * Pokrovske rural hromada with the administration in Pokrovske.

References

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