Reni 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) in

Odesa Oblast Odesa Oblast (), also referred to as Odeshchyna (Одещина), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) of southwestern Ukraine, located along the northern coast of the Black Sea. Its administrative centre is the city of Ode ...

in south-western

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, in the historic

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region of

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. Its administrative center was the city of Reni. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Odesa Oblast to seven. The area of Reni Raion was merged into

Izmail Raion Izmail Raion (; ; ) is a raion (administrative division) in Odesa Oblast in southwestern Ukraine. Its administrative center is the town of Izmail. It is in the historical region of Budjak in southern Bessarabia. Population: On 18 July 2020, as ...

, but the Reni urban hromada has the same territory as the old Reni Raion. The last estimate of the raion population was In 2001, population was 40,680. The raion was predominantly Moldovan and the

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was rare. The raion of Reni, in its boundaries at that time, including the city of Reni, had 40,680 inhabitants in 2001, including 19,938 self-identified Moldovans (49.01%), 7,196 ethnic Ukrainians (17.69%), 6,136 ethnic Russians (15.08%), 3,439 Bulgarians (8.45%), 736 Gagauz (1.81%) and 36 self-identified Romanians (0.09%). The inhabitants of the former Reni Raion, which are identical to those of the current

Reni urban hromada Reni urban hromada () is a hromada (municipality) in Ukraine, in Izmail Raion of Odesa Oblast. The administrative center is the city of Reni. Population: Until 18 July 2020, the hromada belonged to Reni Raion. The raion was abolished in July 20 ...

, were 37.88% Russian-speaking, 40.9% Romanian-speaking, 7.26% Ukrainian-speaking, 6.76% Gagauz-speaking and 6.61% Bulgarian-speaking. Most of villages (five) are Romanophone/Romanian-speaking, while there was one village populated mostly by ethnic Gagauz and another one was populated mostly by ethnic Bulgarians. The city of Reni had 20,761 inhabitants in 2001, including 6,694 ethnic Ukrainians (32.24%), 6,126 self-identified Moldovans (29.5%), 5,589 ethnic Russians (26.92%), 1,012 Bulgarians (4.87%), 736 Gagauz (1.81%) and 22 self-identified Romanians (0.11%). The city of Reni was mostly (70.54%) Russophone, 13.37% Romanian-speaking, 12.5% Ukrainian-speaking, 1.52% Gagauz-speaking and 1.33% Bulgarian-speaking. Most (69.41%) of the rural population of the raion was Romanian-speaking in 2001. In 2001, this was one of two of Ukraine's raions (the other one is

Novoselytsia Raion Novoselytsia Raion (, ) was a raion (administrative district) in Chernivtsi Oblast, (province) in the west of Ukraine. The western part of its territory lied in the historical region of Bukovina, the eastern part in Bessarabia, while one village ...

Chernivtsi Oblast Chernivtsi Oblast (), also referred to as Chernivechchyna (), is an oblast (province) in western Ukraine, consisting of the northern parts of the historical regions of Bukovina and Bessarabia. It has an international border with Romania and Moldo ...

) in which those having a Moldovan identity are the largest demographic group. It was also one of the three raions of Ukraine in which the Romanian language predominated; the other ones were mostly Romanian-speaking

Hertsa Raion Hertsa Raion or Hertza Raion (, translit.: ''Hertsaiivs'kyi raion''; ) was an administrative raion (district) in the southern part of Chernivtsi Oblast in western Ukraine, on the Romanian border. The region had an area of and the administrati ...

and

.The Ukrainian census of 2001, language data by cities, at https://datatowel.in.ua/pop-composition/languages-raions At the time of disestablishment, the raion consisted of one

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 ...

with the administration in Reni.

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